This article argues that contemporary Indian English poetry by queer writers is less a search for inclusion than a sustained interrogation of what it means to belong at all. Drawing on Nira Yuval-Davis's (2011) account of the politics of belonging, alongside queer theory from Foucault (1978), Butler (1990), Ahmed (2006) and Gopinath (2005), it reads the work of Hoshang Merchant, R. Raj Rao, Suniti Namjoshi, Agha Shahid Ali and Akhil Katyal against the shifting legal landscape shaped by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The article shows that these poets negotiate four overlapping sites of belonging: the family, the nation, the city and the literary tradition itself. Rather than seeking admission to these structures on existing terms, the poems recover suppressed archives of same-sex desire, remap urban and diasporic space, and expose the caste, class and gender exclusions that persist within queer communities. The article concludes that the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018) did not resolve the question of belonging; instead, it opened a new poetic terrain in which legal citizenship and affective belonging remain productively at odds.