The travails of growing up gay in a Parsi family
Hoshang Merchant
The Dalai Lama says: "We are all born without religion but we cannot be born without love.” In the upper middle class Bombay Parsi household in which I was born there was a lot of religion but no love!
Gays say that they are aware of their sexuality before they are aware of their nationality. In retrospect I can say I was made aware of my religious identity by my parents and had to ashamedly fumble with my gay sexuality. Nation came last, at least to me.
I am told that at birth I bled profusely from the cut umbilicus. My dad......