Talk:Timeline of South Asian and diasporic LGBT history

Methodology

This page was created by User:Vegamala, who writes:

This wiki timeline was initially developed from an expanded version of timelines created by participants of the DesiQ2006 and DesiQ2013 conferences in San Francisco, CA, USA. Since the participants were predominantly living in the U.S., many of the events are reflective of that participant composition. (See the [2006 timeline] and DesiQ 2013 timeline.)

In verifying events, there was a question as to whether or not to include all and any events. What should be contained here vs. what should be noted in separate articles about specific organizations or people? What events contribute to the overall movement and story of queer South Asians vs. what events contribute to the growth of a smaller geographic areas? Does the formation of the first queer South Asian group have a greater impact than the formation of the 5th or the 25th or the first rural vs. first international? or the first time a queer South Asian group marched publicly vs. the 5th or 25th group to do so? or the first queer South Asian marriage vs. the 5th or the 25th? These are fine lines of distinction, and we encourage people to use their best judgment.

We invite participation from throughout the diaspora and subcontinent to add their histories, especially the movement historians among us. Please add events that have significant historical value regionally/nationally/internationally or beyond the individual group or city. We encourage organizational leaders to create and/or capture the histories of individuals and organizations on a separate wiki page dedicated to a specific person, organization, city, and/or region - and to add only events in this timeline that are significant to the development of the broader collective and movement. Please include dates and where permission has been granted, the significant person(s) involved in organizing the event.

-Anirvan (talk) 14:47, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Verification of events is complicated given that the emergence of our communities happens in the shadows of mainstream news reporting. Some individuals are closeted but organizing or writing under fictitious names - particularly in the early days of our history. Getting news coverage was not necessarily at the top of the list of priorities. Many histories are in boxes at organizers' homes or in local archives, prior to moving historical documentation to the internet and digital archives. Vegamala (talk) 11:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)Vegamala

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Delete this article

This article is utterly useless because the LGBT histories of South Asia are too intertwinned with the Middle East and East Asia in numerous regions that this makes no sense. Pakistan has a lot of history with the Middle East, whereas north eastern parts of South Asia and Sri Lanka have a lot of history with East Asia. Bangladesh being a Muslim country shares a lot of cultural history with the Middle East as well.

The LGBTQ communities in much of the diaspora are also too divided for this to make any sense outside possibly Indian Americans. CheetasOnMission (talk) 17:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)