A year after homosexuality was decriminalised, Shobhna Kumar has founded India’s first online LGBT bookshop.

On July 2 last year, the Delhi High Court decided the 150-year-old Section 377 violated fundamental human rights; so the law has been abolished.

Now that people of alternate sexuality are no longer automatically criminals, another struggle remains: for acceptance and ‘mainstreaming’.

Queer Ink does offer titles which will appeal to queer readers. The numbers, however, are still small. Queer Ink has only 200-plus titles on sale, with some authors contributing several titles.

Kumar has already made space for queer writers on Queer Ink. There is a Writer’s Corner, which contains (at time of writing) about 20 pieces by six contributors. Several are poems. The website also has a short section on current queer ‘lingo’, apart from a calendar of queer events (so far just in Mumbai).

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