Queer voices in particular and wider questions around sexual citizenship in general have remained peripheral to anthropological research in India. Gender and sexuality scholars working in India have drawn attention to an “unspoken academic taboo on the subject” (Kumar, 2022: 1) that underpins its exclusion from dominant paradigms. Therefore, there is an urgent need to centre queer lived experiences and transform taken-for-granted modes of scholarship which recent studies have begun to facilitate. Over the last decade, sexuality-focused critical scholarship on India has turned a corner. As research in this area develops, it is important to pause and reflect on the politics of (unheard) queer voices – which queer voices are being foregrounded and from where, and who is doing the foregrounding? Moreover, current efforts at recovering hitherto-unheard and stigmatised queer voices run the risk of re-inscribing certain existing hierarchies and romanticise their ‘otherness’. Indeed, the process of theorising from unheard queer paradigms is a fraught one, especially if such efforts are to account for the intersectional constructions of queer lives. Drawing on an ethnographically-informed longitudinal study with queer youth in urban India, I reflect on these questions and demonstrate the need for an intersectional classed lens in thinking through the politics of queer voices in India. Focus on decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity has entrenched socio-legal lenses in the study of queer lives in India, and led social researchers away from queer spaces that are nonsexual and function primarily as sites of leisure. Therefore, I use queer youth leisure spaces as my point of entry to illustrate how engagement with the material, cultural and epistemic locations of queer voices can add nuance to current debates. I call on scholars working in this area to engage more directly with the interplay of class and sexuality in researching queer voices in contemporary