“Me and his mum would go shopping for the wedding and she would tell me I was going to be her best friend. In reality, he was living with his partner in his in-laws’ house in the capital and, as the big day drew nearer, he became ever more nervous. Roy, who comes from Manchester, told his parents he was moving to London for work. But I just wanted to be with him and I would have done anything.” “I knew it was going to be difficult us being together as LGBTQ isn’t talked about in the Asian community,” he said. I thought, ‘How did that even come into her head?’ She had even brought a basket of women’s clothes and gold bracelets with her.”Īfter agonising over the weird arrangement, Roy agreed. I would also need to pretend to be a woman for a while to convince the community her son isn’t gay.” “She said if I wanted to marry him I would have to dress as a woman on the wedding day. “But she told me that she comes from a big Indian family and there’s a lot of honour involved. “She said I was very good-looking and her son had chosen well.
I thought this was my very own fairytale love story.”ĭays later Roy received a call from his future mother-in-law.
He said: “Two years later he asked me to marry him.
