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(Gay) Sex and the City

What it means to be a single gay man in post-Section 377 India.

How does the quintessential gay man measure his sexual experiences? In the condoms he used? In the beds he left bare? In the men to come or the men that went by? In the jocular tales that he shared or the rumours that he helped spread? In the whispers behind his back or the compliments down his front? In his spreadsheets of kinks or little black books of conquests? In Grindr pings or Tinder swipes? In this or that?

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