ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that queer community formations through looking at the ways in which community has been conceptualised by an online queer social group on Facebook in the city of Kolkata, India. By taking an intersectional focus, it aims to study queer digital space through the lens of class. The chapter primarily analyses a Facebook group Pink Kolkata Party (PKP) that diverges significantly from the opportunities offered by spaces such as PlanetRomeo or Grindr. PKP is an example of the ways in which a queer community has appropriated a mainstream site such as Facebook, thus blurring the divide between queer space as a segmented space and a queer space occupied by queer people defying heteronormativity and power. The chapter critiques the very notion of a community (state created, locally created or organisationally created), which relies on a sense of commonality. This commonality is a conflation of certain points of convergence - sexuality, gender, class, race -but are not intersectional.
