“…This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy by centring the lived experiences of young gay men in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. While sociological scholarship on Indian youth has expanded significantly in recent decades (for an overview, see Bhadra, 2014; Jayaram, 2009; Jeffrey, 2011; Kumar, 2019a), questions around sexuality are largely absent from these writings. Indeed, sexual, erotic, and embodied aspects of social life have been peripheral to Indian sociology, and calls have therefore been made for ‘queering Indian sociology’ (Kumar, 2014), which extends to sociological studies of youth in India as well.…”