My father was Sudanese, and my mother was Moroccan, and they moved to Saudi Arabia for work. Growing up, I often felt that I didn’t fit in because I was always curious about the world outside. Then, when I hit 11 years old, I started experiencing same-sex attraction and where I’m from, growing up in that culture and that religion, of course that’s a no no. For about 8 or 9 years, I prayed that God would fix it.
At the age of 21, I decided to come out to my family. We had moved to . . .