Vogue India's Head of Editorial Content Megha Kapoor introduces the August issue - It’s
here, it’s queer. Vogue India’s August issue comes together as a joyous tribute to the
fearless and fabulous LGBTQIA+ community within the subcontinent and around the
globe.
Looking back through history, it’s clear that our heritage, our art and our stories didn’t
limit expressions of love or self by gender or other prescriptive notions. The sculptures of
Khajuraho built in the 12th century; medieval depictions of chapti (sapphic love) in Urdu
poetry; pre-modern writings of Sufi poet Bulleh Shah about his love for his murshid—
India’s history is teeming with homoerotic references of same-sex love and influence. We
open our style section in this issue with Chand Bibi, the iconoclastic female warrior who
introduced androgyny into her wardrobe on and off the battlefield way back in the 15th
century. Fast forward and one can trace a timeline of “conformity and colonialism, power
and misogyny” as ALOK frames the subsequent standardisation of self-expression,
gender, love and sex codified by the British Raj in 1861 which criminalised homosexuality
and reflected Victorian English morality rather than Indian instincts.
Yes but, “You Won’t Break My Soul”. This issue is a resounding testament to that—and
we’re telling everybody.
Two queer icons from different generations, ALOK and fashion designer Manish Arora,
wax lyrical about their respective journeys as pioneering queer artistes; maverick
photographer Sunil Gupta, who championed the gay gaze through his compelling
imagery, talks about his powerful body of work and how it could never be divorced from
race and politics; artists Richie Nath, Gurjeet Singh and Devashish Gaur elucidate how
they centre identity and queerness through their practices; and photographer Aditi Jain
shares an intimate view into the everyday life of trans women in Delhi. Photographer
Kalpesh Lathigra travels across India capturing a sweeping series of non-heteronormative
storytelling comprising drag queens, a throuple, a trio of models, a community art
collective run by women and trans artists, a brown male makeup artist and the incredible
first-of-its-kind transgender football team from India’s north-east, Ya-All FC (Manipuri for
‘revolution’).
There’s a resounding, unifying thread woven throughout the stories told in our August
issue which speaks to the inherent need for self-expression and the right to be who one is
or wants to be, without the fear of violence. Fashion was one of the first spaces for the
queer community, eloquently described by ALOK as a template for possibility.
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