Exactly six years ago, when the Supreme Court decriminalised Section 377 of the (then) Indian Penal Code to exclude consenting adult LGBTQIA+ persons from its purview, I said in interviews given to newspapers, as well as in a TEDx talk that October, that I was better off when the archaic Section 377 was in force, as it enabled me to continue being a resisting subject. Of course, my statement, academic and political, was meant to be ironic, but the irony was lost on most LGBTQIA+ members, who thought it rather irresponsible of me to make such a reactionary statement. What I meant then, and continue to maintain today, is that one cannot allow oneself to be co-opted by a false sense of optimism, when the reality is, as hindsight has shown, that very little has substantively changed for the LGBTQIA+ community, the decriminalisation of Section 377 notwithstanding.