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    ‘I owe my life to art’

    Jan 29, 2024 4 minutes

    Chinese-Kiwi playwright, poet and performer Nathan Joe has won numerous honours including the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2021. He is co-editor of queer literary publication Eel and creative director of Auckland Pride, the LGBTQI+ festival running this month.

    Choosing how and when to come out can be so complex. How did you reveal yourself to your parents?

    I came out to Dad just before I moved to Auckland when I was 20, and to Mum when I was about 28. I came out to my parents separately, as we don’t have good two-on-one conversations.

    Why is that?

    Coming out is an act of storytelling, and it’s easier to talk to Dad in English, because ostensibly he’s a Kiwi, and because Mum didn’t come to New Zealand until she was in her 20s, I came out to her

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