There is a greater need for gay literature in smaller cities and in vernacular languages, believes author, poet and gay icon Hoshang Merchant. "At least in the larger cities support groups are now available… What resources does a person coming out (as gay) to his family or friends have in small towns? None… It’s in the mofussil areas where people are dying or killing themselves of shame that such translation is needed,” he stated emphatically, speaking to Parsiana on July 9, 2024. Which is why he is delighted that his book, The Man Who Would Be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions, has......