Khush
on-air movie Secondary GL

Khush (1991)

GB

Khush means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India, the term captures the blissful intricacies of being queer and of color. Inspiring testimonies bridge geographical differences to locate shared experiences of isolation and exoticization but also the unremitting joys and solidarity of being khush.

🏳️‍🌈 Pratibha Parmar's landmark documentary short explicitly centers entirely on tracking the real-world visibility, oral histories, and raw romances of South Asian lesbians and gay men.