Saleem Kidwai, scholar who unearthed long-buried literature on gay love in India, dies at 70

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.”