Aravind Chandrasekaran’s parents still don’t know their son is gay.
But when the second-year graduate student travels home to India next winter, he plans to address “the elephant in the room.”
“Life is going to be different for them,” said Chandrasekaran, who identifies as a cisgendered gay man. “The thing that they thought I would never have the guts to come up and say, I will.”
Growing up in India, Chandrasekaran said he had difficulty coming to terms with his sexuality. Some of his friends’ parents forced them into therapy after they came out, he said, and other people reacted by saying “Are you sure?” and “Maybe you just haven’t met the right woman yet.”
He has been in America for a little more than a year and said he feels less inhibited when expressing who he is.
“I know in at least this part of the country I can be open about myself to anyone that I meet and that they won’t judge me,” he said. “That is important.”
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6 comments:
Most parents do not know this, but colleges promote gay behavior. Parents pay big bucks to these institutions while entrusting them to promote behaviors that are in the best interest of their child. First year college students are naïve and have never been afforded the freedoms that college life gives them.
just go on campus and look at the posters around not only the dorms but the classrooms. it is in your face promotion of all LGBT so called rights, activities, weeks, celebrations etc. you would really think that 90% of the population is LGBT
7:47 & 8:31 - this was also true in 1973!
None of your statements are true. Institutions of higher learning promote thinking/reasoning and understanding of information and concepts. Some you may not like or be familiar with but that is part of learning. Psychiatrists study child molesters and the criminally insane but it does not make them be one.
8:43 not when I went to college in 1980. it was nothing like it is now. it is seriously in your face and please do not disagree
Scratch that school off the list.
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