In Born like this Raf struggles with a big question for his late father: why did he want a child? There is a fast pace in this story, but there is also a lot to tell. Raf’s father had a double life in the seventies and eighties. The outside world spotted a Freddy Mercury lookalike: a man with a good mustache, father, butcher by trade, and apparently happily married. But Raf’s father married his mother to hide his homosexuality.
This podcast explores the life and death of Raf’s father. It is a quest full of exciting twists. But the actual research goes further than that: How did other men and their families struggle with hidden homosexuality?
A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of May 28, 2022
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