SoVo.com – By: Dyana Bagby
It was a long car ride for Asha Leong one afternoon when her mother picked her up from high school in Charleston, W.Va., some 14 years ago. A senior at the time, Leong said the typically 30-minute ride seemed interminable when her mother decided it was the perfect time to tell her teen daughter she was gay.
“I was really surprised,” Leong, now 32 and who identifies as queer, admits of her mother’s proclamation. “I was also at a time in my life when I didn’t want to think of my parents having sex. And I was also dealing with my own sexuality and internalized homophobia, so it was not an easy transition.”