![]() The novel I sat down to write in the fall of 1990 was personal, drawn from my own life, about a boy whose singular joy was dressing up as a bride. The room was packed with students and afterwards, they came up to get books signed, some leaning in to whisper, “you changed my life,” followed by that shy knowing look that I’ve seen so often on the faces of my Sri Lankan and South Asian LGBTQ readers. Speakers got up to talk about how the book had helped young queer people come to terms with themselves, and also created greater tolerance towards LGBTQ issues how the Sinhala translation had brought to Sinhalese readers the truth of what had happened to Tamils in the 1970s and 80s, which their history textbooks had erased how for Tamils it validated what they had suffered and for the young diaspora, it gave them the feeling for what had happened to their parents and grandparents. ![]() ![]() The University of Colombo held a festive event in early March to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my novel Funny Boy. Shyam Selvadurai is the author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens and the upcoming novel Mansions of the Moon. ![]()
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