Gay marriage is heteronormative now? How stupid are certain people? Then again, there are a lot of people like that who live in liberal, cosmopolitan cities like London. That that there is anything wrong with a marriage being trans-exclusionary. And "castist"? Gay marriage or civil unions actually help working class and poor gay people, because they can use these institutions to safeguard their relationships from overbearing families or corrupt police officers. Plus, these institutions also help poor or working class same sex couples cope with high taxation rates. It’s very weird to me that a queer theorist from India would brand same sex marriage as "castist", when this theorist most likely comes from one of the higher up castes in India because he or she can afford to live in an expensive city in a country far away from home. And from I’ve heard, the upper castes in India treat the lower castes poorly.