Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

Naming
Stigma
toward
MSM
Examples of Testimonies
One year later my mother phoned and told me that I must get married and that she
would arrange a wife for me. I refused and found the courage to tell her, “Look, I
don’t want a wife. I have sexual feelings for men. I don’t hate girls, but I just don’t
have sexual feelings for girls.” My mother said, “You are wasting your time and
your money on boyfriends!”
My father, on the other hand, was more accepting. He said, “Let him be free to do
what he wants. No one can understand the feelings of another person. We can’t
force him to do anything.”
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