Alive and Gay in Pakistan

(The views expressed in this article do not reflect those of Pakteahouse)

By NICK SCHIFRIN

It wasn’t until she was 16 years old, when she’d left her Pashtun family in Peshawar for an elite school where the teachers were nuns, that Minot realized she was gay.

“I found out when I dated my literature teacher [a nun],” she said. “I got an A.”