Impossible desires : an introduction -- Communities of sound : queering South Asian popular music in the diaspora -- Surviving Naipaul : housing masculinity in A house for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East is east -- Bollywood/Hollywood : queer cinematic representation and the perils of translation -- Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of fire and "The quilt" -- Nostalgia, desire, diaspora : funny boy and cereus blooms at night -- Epilogue: queer homes in diaspora.