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The first targets of what we could today call 'queerphobic queer cleansing’ were the British themselves, beginning with the Imperial Army. For instance, as Ballhatchet notes, British administrators officially organised an Indian female prostitution apparatus to prevent same-sex acts between British soldiers. They preferred that British men engage in interracial extra-marital heterosex instead of intra-racial homosex.