FEATURE-Loved and loathed: Raising a gay child in the former Soviet Union

FEATURE-Loved and loathed: Raising a gay child in the former Soviet Union
KIEV, Oct 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was the poems that gave it away. Heartfelt writings about a man’s love for a man and a woman’s love for a woman found on the family computer sent Olena Globa into a seething rage when she confronted her then-teenaged son about his sexuality.
“I sat down on the sofa next to him. I remember I was looking straight at the door, and I – very sharply, very angrily – asked him, ‘Are you a faggot?’” said Globa, sitting in her apartment in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Continue Reading