Bowen Yang has been candid about being forced by his parents to undergo gay conversion therapy when he was a teenager, and the “Saturday Night Live” star is sharing more details about his experience in a new interview with People. “There was a huge chasm of misunderstanding,” Yang tells the magazine. “Neither side really understood where the other was coming from, and it led to very dangerous situations overall.” However, Yang insists that “what was always constant was the intention of love from both sides.
It pushed me into questioning what it meant, what was protected and what I should be protective about in terms of being a queer person.