Saleem Kidwai, scholar who unearthed long-buried literature on gay love in India, dies at 70

Independently, they had been collecting texts describing same-sex attraction and love from their readings, Mr. Kidwai in Urdu and Persian, Vanita in Sanskrit and other languages. “As you’d be reading, you’d find lots of things that would strike you and your gaydar would start tinging,” Mr. Kidwai later told Project Bolo, a collection of oral histories documenting the gay community in India. “Both Ruth and I had been doing similar things.”