In fact, I had always imagined myself middle-aged, married to a woman, and having a son and daughter-didn't everyone want some version of that? I hadn't thought about how my infatuation with boys would play out over the course of my life. I admitted that life would be easier if such a pill existed. My mother responded by asking whether I wanted a family, then posed a hypothetical: "If there were a pill you could take that would make you straight, would you take it?" I said I didn't see how talking about myself in a therapist's office was going to make me stop liking guys. My mom is a problem solver, and the next day she handed me a stack of papers she had printed out from the Internet about reorientation, or "ex-gay," therapy. "I knew it, ever since you were a little boy." She had snooped through my e-mail and discovered a message in which I confessed to having a crush on a male classmate. Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying.
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