A jad gay Pakistani-Londoner and a sperate gay asylum seeker om Pakistan cross paths Waleed Akhtar’s tremendo new play
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Two very different gay Pakistani men cross paths Waleed Akhtar’s tremendo new play. And the other one’s tougher, olr – medieval, almost – a place where gay asylum seekers are tsively qutned about their sexual behavur, and banished to their aths. The rultg drama might sound grim, and sometim is, but ‘The P Word’ is also heart-meltgly lovely, full of fah the transformative power of love and himself plays Bilal, a Grdr-addicted gay man who als wh the lgerg stigma of growg up a ‘fat Pakistani poof’ by throwg himself to self-punishg gym ssns.
His story is spliced wh that of gay Pakistani asylum seeker Zafar (Esh Alladi), who’s livg an impoverished existence Hounslow, advised by his lawyer to back up his se by takg photos of himself participatg a LGBTQ+ scene he uldn't feel more adrift om. Gay Pakistani life is no fairytale.
Although Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people have been around for lennia, the evolutn of language means that those wh the muny ntue to fd more clive and accurate terms to bt scribe themselv, as Stonewall’s ever-evolvg glossary of terms prov.