Photography Frank Berlin
The doctor turned to me and said: “Let’s say your parents are wrong. Let’s say you can’t change who you are on a fundamental level. Imagine that you are, and always will be, gay.”
I couldn’t look at her any longer so I turned to a Norman Rockwell print that a surprising number of smalltown doctors frame in their offices: the one with the little boy lowering his pants while the doc readies a vaccine. There will be a little sting but otherwise you’ll be fine.