“I knew it was going to be difficult us being together as LGBTQ isn’t talked about in the Asian community,” he said. I thought, ‘How did that even come into her head?’ She had even brought a basket of women’s clothes and gold bracelets with her.”Īfter agonising over the weird arrangement, Roy agreed. I would also need to pretend to be a woman for a while to convince the community her son isn’t gay.” “She said if I wanted to marry him I would have to dress as a woman on the wedding day. “But she told me that she comes from a big Indian family and there’s a lot of honour involved. “She said I was very good-looking and her son had chosen well. I thought this was my very own fairytale love story.”ĭays later Roy received a call from his future mother-in-law. He said: “Two years later he asked me to marry him.
