Gay asien

This article is also ready in Simplified Chinese.

Content Warning: This article contains mention of suicide. 

It was a rather unexpected and unwanted disruption to my Sunday morning.

I was on my way to lunch with a friend when I received a long Wechat word from my dad. When I travel back to China, we don’t chat that much. And he rarely calls me in Australia. It’s left to my mum to contribute any news.

So, I figured such a long weekend text must be something dire or urgent.

He was reminding me that I needed to get married. What’s more, he reflection he’d found someone for me. She’s around my age, had studied abroad, and owns her have apartment in a vast city.

I didn’t know how to respond so asked my friend for guide over lunch. He’s also originally from China and also gay.

His look was one of concern.

My friend’s mum had died by suicide not long after he came out to her. She’d been suffering depression so his sexuality wasn’t the only factor but as you’d look forward to, her death took a heavy toll on him. They’d been particularly close.

He often thinks he should not have burdened her. Chinese parents often fight with news that their children are gay. Many feel that they hav