ESCAPING A MARRIAGE FROM HELL

After what should have been the happiest time of his life turned into a nightmare, Lucky Roy Singh is taking a stand against forced marriages and honour-based abuse

Words Thomas Stichbury

Tears flowed when Lucky Roy Singh married the love of his life. “I was coming down for the wedding procession, in bits, crying,” he recalls. But those tears of joy soon turned into tears of anguish for Lucky. Growing up gay in a Sikh household in Manchester, Lucky tried to suppress his sexuality so as not to dishonour his family and he never entertained the idea that he might one day marry a man. However, all that changed when he fell for his older brother’s best friend, also a Sikh. [For legal reasons, we are calling him Manav]. “We started secretly dating. He told his parents he was bisexual when he was 14 and said they were OK with it,” Lucky says. “Things became serious and he said he wanted us to spend our…

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Attitude (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2019

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