My dad gave me the sex talk at 27. It was one of the best conversations of my life

My dad gave me the sex talk at 27. It was one of the best conversations of my life | Wing Kuang

Sex is still a taboo topic for my Chinese immigrant baby boomer parents, but i’ve discovered it’s never too late to have ‘the talk’. Sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently, I heard a line that I ...

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A moment that changed me: I was 16, gay and bullied for it. Then my father wrote to the Guardian …

Britain in the 90s seemed to see homosexuality as something shameful. My father told the world how proud he was of me. Growing up gay in the 90s was incredibly difficult. In 1998, I was 16 and ...

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