Updated March 01, 2020 10:45:35 As soon as Omar finished school, he left home and threw himself into Sydney's Oxford Street gay scene.
He had grown up in a traditional, Jordanian Muslim household in Castle Hill and attended a Christian school in the "Bible belt".
Neither were particularly conducive to embracing Omar's identity as a young gay man. While his immediate family is aware of his sexuality, Omar's father does not acknowledge that he's gay and it has meant he doesn't speak with his