After her son me out as gay, Shma Samudra nsulted astrologers, quizzed psychiatrists, performed prayers and implored gods and godss to cure his abnormaly.
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- L IS FOR LBIAN, G IS FOR GAY: INDIAN PARENTS LEARN ABC OF LGBT
- PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
L IS FOR LBIAN, G IS FOR GAY: INDIAN PARENTS LEARN ABC OF LGBT
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In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illn of him as the perfect son shattered. Unlike Sourav, who nfintly asserts himself as a gay man spe the phback om his loved on, back the 1980s and 1990s, I had no termology to scribe what I was.
PRI MONTH 2021: GAY UPLE RAISG KIDS INDIA, OVERG CHALLENG, TASTG VICTORI
There was emotnal blackmail, cludg beg blamed for his mother’s illns; beg taken by his parents to nsult a homophobic nropsychiatrist who diagnosed him wh a “sexual disorr”, prcribed meditn for and remend unsellg to rrect his ways; and opprsive parental surveillance, aid by the lack of privacy their two-room home. To his horror, she told him that he was “not normal”, followed by advice monly given to young gay men: bee more “mascule”.