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‘Grindr is basically interactive porn’: ethnographic observations from Kolkata on queer intimacies and ‘pic exchange’ on Grindr and PlanetRomeo

Pages 339-345 | Received 22 Oct 2021, Accepted 02 Feb 2022, Published online: 12 May 2022

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