MAYBE I’M EXPECTING too much, too fast. Maybe it’s a process. Soraya says they’re doing better than most parents in their position. She says, “How many Iranian gay kids do you know whose parents are okay with it?”
I get what she’s talking about. I get that they’re trying. But I also know they’re struggling, and after the summer that I had in Rome, where I got to be me—all of me—it’s hard for me to accept that it might take a while.