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My name is Atu Darko and I’m from the Bronx, New York.

I grew up in an immigrant family, in an immigrant community. So my parents are immigrants from Ghana, a small country in West Africa. The environment that I grew up in was really wonderful and loving and I had friends from all over, but it was also very conservative. So I grew up in a household that went to church regularly.

I was also in the choir, and I did observe that the choir director, who was a person I admired greatly, acted a little bit differently from the other members of the church and the church community. My father, who was also in the choir, one day was at house speaking to my mother in the kitchen. I came in and I mentioned the name of the choir director and looking forward to seeing him at the next practice.

I remember my mother say to him and to me, “Oh, I think he’s a gay.”

And my father saying, “Yeah, I think so, too. He behaves a small bit like a lady and that’s terrible.” I remember feeling really shocked about that. So though my parents didn’t utter in a homophobic way often, that was the first occasion where they really gave a feeling that they disapprove of homosexuality or that was something aberrant,