The Last Queen of Bengal

Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Aug 12, 20266:00Government & Organizations

Queer histories often seem to exist in a vacuum. As if it all started with Stonewall in New York or Harvey Milk in San Francisco. But queer people existed long before then, trying to carve out their space in the world.

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