Independently, they’d been amassing texts describing same-sex attraction and love from their readings, Mr. Kidwai in Urdu and Persian, Vanita in Sanskrit and different languages. “As you’d be studying, you’d discover a lot of issues that will strike you and your gaydar would begin tinging,” Mr. Kidwai later told Project Bolo, a group of oral histories documenting the homosexual neighborhood in India. “Each Ruth and I had been doing related issues.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/native/obituaries/saleem-kidwai-dead/2021/09/02/662ec93c-0a90-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | Saleem Kidwai, scholar who unearthed long-buried literature on homosexual love in India, dies at 70