Gopinath discusses the importance  and meaning of queer diasporic critique by studying queer diasporic cultural forms and the way the cultural forms redefine ‘home’ as different to the traditional (blood, purity (chaste and cis), authenticity, patrilineal descent). Heteronormativity is the structure of colonialism and nationalism and influences the way cis-hood is valued over queer-ness. Therefore, studying sexuality and the absence of it, particularly in euro-Bollywood films, is central to the anti-imperialist and anti-racist project.

South Asian bodies in Bollywood films are seen purely as spectacles and entertainment, while South Asian communities in the U.S. are experiencing representational violences, such as seen after 9/11. They are in either criminal and anti-national or multicultural and assimilationist. It is the absence of queer-ness in Bollywood films that allows for assimilation.

The paper emphasizes the importance of queer diasporic critiques in order to understand the racist violence South Asian bodies are experiencing in a hegemonic cis-heteronormative narrative.