Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 2 — PART I: BECOMING GAY
A gay man’s online diary from Pakistan’s dial-up era.
Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 2—PART I compiles Shams’s entries from January to April 2004.
The first part of Volume 2 begins at night. Shams drives through Clifton and Defence, racing through the city with friends and lingering at traffic signals a little too long. He writes of testosterone and instinct. Desire feels everywhere, uncontained: in chatrooms, in passing glances, and in strangers on motorcycles.
One night, he attends a gay party. It is not grand or cinematic. It is awkward and observant. Yet for him, that night marks a crossing from imagining desire to inhabiting it. He notices the way Karachi becomes a stage after sunset and the pull of the city after midnight.
Publisher: Khajistan Press
Author: Shams Tabrizi
Language: English
Type: Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-04-0
Pages: 240
Item Weight: 0.55 lbs
Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
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