"I told the uncle that if he was so convinced in the faith healer, then to ask the mystic to turn him gay, too, then heterosexual again. After three hours, only the boy's uncle remained unwilling to accept him. She answered their questions about homosexuality. The next day, Desai organized a meeting over Zoom with the boy's extended family. After she hung up, her phone rang again - this time it was the boy's uncle, angry after confronting his nephew about whom he had been speaking to. It was heartbreaking listening to his situation," recalls Desai.įor several hours, until the first light of dawn, Desai counseled the boy, telling him that she would find a solution. "He said that he could not bear to live anymore and that he was going to take his own life. "My son and I have always been close and I thought, given how difficult he found it to tell me, what must children in homophobic and transphobic families be going through? I wanted to keep the conversation open for them," says Desai. Aruna Desai's son Abhishek came out to her in 2007.
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