Even growing up in a family that considered itself progressive, I was continually shamed for being non-gender conforming, and coerced to correct myself – forced into feminine clothes, told off for “wanting to be a boy”. Unlike Sourav, who confidently asserts himself as a gay man despite the pushback from his loved ones, back in the 1980s and 1990s, I had no terminology to describe what I was. His father did not speak to him for three months. He recalled how his mother cried so much, she required emergency hospitalisation for dehydration and low blood pressure. In 2017, when he told his parents he was gay, their illusion of him as the perfect son shattered. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 ‘Warrior women together’: Mothers of the Black trans family list 2 of 4 From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey list 3 of 4 The lessons trauma taught me: A car expert’s tale list 4 of 4 An Indian abroad: ‘My mind is a graveyard of the living’ end of list
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