Sam Khalaf and his son Riyadh used to call themselves the two musketeers. They fell in love, married and moved to the seaside town of Bray, where they had their first son, Riyadh, two years later. He worried that his father – whom he describes as “outrageously heterosexual” – would instigate an honour killing or arranged marriage, or force his son into gay conversion therapy. In his book, Riyadh frames this lightly, as his own “super-dramatic thinking”. “‘I know you love your son, so show your love.’” She asked a neighbour who had two gay sons to talk to Sam.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2019 04:52 UTC