| dc.description.abstract | The subject of gender and sexuality is intricate
and complex to the extent that it unlocks a wide-ranging
troubles whenever it is tried to be tamed under any
universalized social order. Sexuality and sexual rights has
suffered an extensive period of silence within the society.
Open discussions and debates about sexuality is something
which till now is not common, unveiled and appreciated.
Therefore, this research aims to reveal the comparative
situation analysis between Indian and Sri Lanka with regard
to queer activism and identity of sexual minorities. The
conceptual framework of this research is designed to
evaluate the subject matter through a quantitative research
methodology mainly based upon secondary sources. The
outline of the paper will be focus on the analysis the
following key factors of defining sexual minorities, discourses
of sexuality, sexual identity and cultural essentialism, sexual
identity and cultural hybridism, locating queer movement in
identity politics and finally to emphasize the importance of
rights of sexual minorities through a comparative situation
analysis between India and Sri Lanka. By making a
comparative analysis of Indian Queer activism and Queer
Activism in Sri Lanka, as a reference point, this paper will
seek to overview identity politics engaged with the question
of sexuality. It shall apply theoretical understanding in a local
setting, and thus explore sexuality as an identity issue, begins
with historicizing sexuality in the Indian and Sri Lankan
context by historicizing sexuality in the both the contexts, to
explore the multiple and complex ways in which patriarchal
and hetero normative institutions of the state have shaped
and constrained discourses on sexuality and maintained a
hetro patriarchy in the both the societies. Ultimately, the
research outcomes would assist the alternative ways in
which sexuality was present in India and Sri Lanka but was
veiled up by the forces of hegemonic sexuality dictated by the
state. | en_US |
