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This chapter introduces the readers to some of the theoretical frameworks that have been used to understand the focal themes of this book: childhood/s, growing up gay, self and identity development, construction of normative and non-normative sexualities. I discuss, here, traditional perspectives within developmental psychology, childhood studies, and micro sociology on child development, socialization, and role of family, and bring a critical and queer perspective to these understandings. The chapter also discusses the social construction of normative and non-normative sexualities as well as the historical medicalization and pathologization of same-sex sexuality within the mental health sciences. Finally, the chapter lays out contexts of LGBTQ lives in urban India, which forms the backdrop against which my inquiry on ‘gay childhood/s and growing up’ is to be read.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    I use the term ‘gay’ in this book mostly to mean both men and women with same-sex sexual attraction, identity, and orientation. Thus, in most instances in the book, the term ‘gay’ is used to refer to both gay men and lesbian women, except in intances where I use the term ‘gay men’ specifically to refer to men. For further discussion on identities and terminology, please refer to Sect. 1.4 of this chapter: ‘Gay’‚ ‘Lesbian’‚ ‘Queer’—contextualizing sexual identity labels.

  2. 2.

    Since the 1970s, in Euro-American contexts, there have been efforts at studying LGBT identity development and ways in which sexual orientation intersects with developmental experiences. However, these studies are often carried out by special interest groups and are treated as separate topics of research, while the mainstream narrative of developmental research continues to be dominated by heterosexism and gender binarism.

  3. 3.

    Work in the area of androgyny and gender schema theory, pioneered by Sandra Bem in the 1980s, would be an exception to this research trend in psychology.

  4. 4.

    Parts of this section have been published before in Ranade and Chakravarty (2016).

  5. 5.

    Shaleen Rakesh v/s NHRC, 2001, Available at: http://lawandotherthings.com/2009/07/naz-foundation-and-nhrc/. Last accessed on 15th July 2017.

  6. 6.

    The mental health professionals petition to the Supreme Court is available at - http://orinam.net/377/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CurativePetition_MentalHealth.pdf.

  7. 7.

    This is not to suggest a dichotomy of individualist versus collectivist or western versus eastern culture. In a globalized world such a compartmentalization would not be possible and there are degrees of individuation and individualization in all cultures. Moreover, as suggested by Sinha and Tripathi (2003), ‘individualist’ and ‘collectivist’ can be thought of as orientations that co-exist within individuals and cultures, that find expression in diverse contexts. In this chapter, and later in the book, I do cite research from the Indian context that supports the idea of a socially/familially embedded self, as one of the analytical lenses to discuss findings of my study.

  8. 8.

    In conversation with Asha Achuthan, May 2017 about sexual identities in post-colonial India.

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Ranade, K. (2018). Growing Up Gay: Interrogating Disciplinary Frames. In: Growing Up Gay in Urban India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8366-2_1

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