Preface -
Acknowledgements -
1 My Story -
2 Recalling Rainbows in Gujarat -
3 You Write, and I Will Tell -
4 Ofa Different Mettle -
5 No Walls, No Roof, Nothing but the Earth under the Open Sky-My Birthplace -
6 Post Box-31, GPO, Raopura -
7 Leefafey Mein Bandh Kuch Baate: Some Conversations Sealed in Envelopes -
8 Something This Name Lacks -
9 Exposed -
10 A Man of Two Cities, West to South, Punjabi-Gujarati -
11 Who Will Believe She Ran Away with a Woman, and That She is Still..-
12 Of Elopements and Maitri Karaar -
13 The Life and Times of Mansa Patel and Dalphina Fernandez -
14 l am Taking This Step Willingly -
15 Everyone Needs a Companion in Old Age -
16 But I Knew That. I Knew That Others Knew -
17 No, No, We Are Not Hurt So Badly That We Cannot Move -
18 Fear of Family and Community Holds Us from Living Our Lives Fully -
Appendix I.

"Footprints of a Queer History is a simple narrative of queer stories marked by personal journeys, political consciousness, socio-legal struggles, friendships, and love; it puts on record, within the larger historical backdrop, our humdrum and unexceptional acts of everyday-living that are pierced with the pain of stigma and silence. Stories capture the voices of the marginalized, the rarely heard, and only stories can truly and fully capture their day-to-day reality. They transcend the limitations of defining human experiences and show the impossibility of telling the whole truth, arousing the imagination for that un-tellable tale and leaving room for the inarticulate to attempt those spillages of reality that can only be sensed." -- publisher