Scotland's national poet reveals birth dad's shock question after learning she was a lesbian
lesbian relationship.Makar Jackie Kay described his response as “shocking” when she told him she was gay.The 58-year-old travelled to Nigeria to meet her birth father after tracking him down.However, the reunion didn’t go how she planned when the devout Christian said he wanted to keep her a secret.Jackie, who was adopted, said: “The trickiest thing was telling my birth father I was a lesbian.“I just decided I was going to tell him because I just thought, ‘What have I got to lose?’“He only wanted to meet me once and didn’t want to tell his children about me.“He said, ‘I’ve discussed this matter with God and God agrees with me that it is for the best that we keep this a secret.’”He then went on to quiz her about a letter she had sent him in.
