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An Indefinite Sentence - A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex (Hardcover)
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An Indefinite Sentence - A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex (Hardcover)
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Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir/Biography
A revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal
struggle for justice. From his time as a child in 1960s India,
Siddharth Dube knew that he was different. Reckoning with his
femininity and sexuality--and his intellect--would send him on a
lifelong journey of discovery: from Harvard classrooms to unsafe
cruising sites; from ivory-tower think-tanks to shantytowns; from
halls of power at the UN and World Bank to jail cells where sexual
outcasts are brutalized. Coming of age in the earliest days of
AIDS, Dube was at the frontlines when that disease made rights for
gay men and for sex workers a matter of basic survival, pushing to
decriminalize same-sex relations and sex work in India, both
similarly outlawed under laws dating back to British colonial rule.
He became a trenchant critic of the United States' imposition of
its cruel anti-prostitution policies on developing countries--an
effort legitimized by leading American feminists and would-be
do-gooders--warning that this was a 21st century replay of the
moralistic Victorian-era campaigns that had spawned endless
persecution of countless women, men, and trans individuals the
world over. Profound, ferocious, and luminously written, An
Indefinite Sentence is both a personal and political journey,
weaving Dube's own quest for love and self-respect with
unforgettable portrayals of the struggles of some of the world's
most oppressed people, those reviled and cast out for their
sexuality. Informed by a lifetime of scholarship and introspection,
it is essential reading on the global debates over sexuality,
gender expression, and of securing human rights and social justice
in a world distorted by inequality and right-wing ascendancy.
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