Review: The coming out process is extra hairy in tender, thoughtful Bouchra
I was raised in a pretty conservative Christian household, and spent more than twenty years in the church. I was taught a lot of ideas about homosexuality that are just plain wrong: that it's a sin, that it's a choice, etc. etc. When I realized I was gay, and really came to terms with the fact of it -- that it was something I didn't have a say in, and it was something I couldn't ignore -- I wasn't sure how to approach coming out. I was planning to move to LA soon, so I thought maybe I could just not tell my parents, at least for the time being. But due to various circumstances, I ended up coming out to my parents earlier than intended. They responded with love, but it was still a hard thing for them to hear. They, too, had been subjected to a lot of lies about homosexuality, and they feared for what my life might look like: marginalization, loneliness, persecution. For about a week, I only heard from my mom via email, which was just not the way we communicated. Fin...
