[1] Having moved to the United States to escape persecution for his sexual orientation, he became known locally for establishing Sangat, an organization to support LGBT South Asian youths, and internationally for publishing Narman, a poetry collection that was the first open expression of homosexual themes in the Urdu language.
[3] Nasim was born in Faisalabad, Pakistan (then called Lyallpur), shortly before independence, a middle child in a large family.
At 16, Nasim was shot in the leg by a soldier while reading a politically charged poem, during a protest against martial law.
Nasim worked at a gay bar named Bistro owned by Eddie Dugan as a go-go dancer.
The publication for which Nasim was best known was a book of poetry entitled Narman, a word meaning "hermaphrodite" or "half-man, half-woman" in Persian.