Coming out: how and why?

[CellarDweller115]

[Jeff Wrangler]

The expression on the kid's face is priceless.

[gnash]

damn, it must be tough coming out when your mom praises allah. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBYz1yKy1cx/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

[fritzkep]

Since the writing on the t-shirt is reversed, the car probably has left-hand drive as in the US, actually.

[tfferg]

damn, it must be tough coming out when your mom praises allah. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBYz1yKy1cx/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

There are many insights into what it is like in the 2022 novel Son of Sin  (Affirm Press, Melbourne) by bisexual Australian poet Omar Sakr whose background is Turkish-Lebanese Muslim. Jamal Khaddaj Smith, who the author describes as a "distant avatar" grows up in an extended Muslim family in Western Sydney, far away from Sydney Harbour and the annual Mardi Gras.