Mint in an interview recently.In this context, Lalan’s experience is fairly unique. For several people who have come out during this period, the lockdown has been a double-edged sword—debilitating, with fleeting yet overwhelming moments of relief.A NECESSARY RELEASETake the example of 18-year-old Diya Unni from Bengaluru, who came out as bisexual to her parents a few weeks ago. “The lockdown hasn’t been great for me.
I have just been stuck in my room and thinking about a lot of stuff in my life and the past, things that have happened to me, things I haven’t come to terms with.
A part of this was my sexuality because I hadn’t come out so...that was kind of bothering me," she says. One day she just told her mother.Unni remembers the time her.