Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife is a rich new offering to the library of queer nightlife, as it meditates on the textures, fissures, and fragments of gay South Asian nightlife cultures caught within the transnational flows of global and racial capital. Kareem Khubchandani is the party's host, but not the kind of host who will shame you for wearing the wrong outfit, having the wrong body, too thick an accent, too dark a skin tone, too femme a formation, or for juking with a little too much abandon and uncouth swish. In Ishtyle there is no way to be the wrong kind of queer, or the wrong kind of desi. Instead, as one settles into this book, one sets out with Khubchandani night after night to house parties, gay bars, nightclubs, and queer neighborhoods as he theorizes “ishtyle.” Ishtyle, to Khubchandani, is what José Muñoz might call a queer brown...
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