After coming out, his parents rejected him. Music brought the family back together. -
“Duy, you’re our son,” his father said, wrapping him in a warm embrace. “You can tell us anything.”
Except, it turned out, the forbidden words he was about to speak.
“Mom, Dad. I’m gay,” he said in Vietnamese between hyperventilating gasps.
At first, his parents said nothing as they quickly withdrew their hug.
“We were in shock,” his mom, Thuy Nguyen, recalled.
“Are you joking? What did I do wrong as a parent?” his dad, Hung Nguyen, remembers thinking to himself.
“The silence was deafening,” Nguyen-Amigo said. “I’m sure there was only about 10 seconds’ worth of silence, but it felt like an eternity.”
“I could see the look in their faces shifting from shock to confusion to anger,” he added. “I knew they would react that way, and that was the saddest part.”
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