“Then he went away to college and didn’t come back.” “I don’t think I can describe what it’s like to live in the same house as someone, see them every day, eat dinner with them, and never say a word to them, never make eye contact with them, for six months.
“I wanted him out of my house but my wife wouldn’t have any of it, so I just pretended like he didn’t exist,” he continued. The father told the LGBT subreddit that he had “hated gay people for as long as I can really remember and I honestly don’t know why,” and that when he discovered he had a gay son, he “flipped out, said disgusting things to him, s**t that keeps me up at night.