ArticleAuthors: Shermal Wijewardene (2023)
This paper explores the representation of queer men’s unequal sexual citizenship in Sri Lanka in a Sri Lankan Anglophone play, focusing on its problematisation of an ambiguous ‘sodomy’ prohi-bition. I examine The One Who Loves You So (2019), a text in which the illegality of queer men’s offline and online intimacies is para-doxically depicted as both affirmed and open to interpretation. The textual analysis is contextualised by the Sri Lankan state’s consis-tent history of equivocating on who or what the country’s ‘sodomy laws’ criminalise, particularly when facing international human rights pressure. The state’s equivocation is surprisingly overlooked or dismissed as strategy in most... 
