Indian-American dad raising a toast at his gay son’s wedding leaves people teary-eyed

A video of Indian-American man delivering an emotional speech at his gay son’s wedding is doing rounds on internet in which he reminisces how his son came out as homosexual in high school. Dr Vijay Mehta, a resident of central Texas, raised a toast to his son, Parag Mehta, and talked about his journey as a parent in accepting Parag’s decision to marry Vaibhav Jain.

During his speech, Dr Mehta speaks about need to be braver and more compassionate while seeking truth and spreing love. He said that he was one of luckiest fars around in 1997 when his son was valedictorian, spelling bee champion, and doing a great job as a Romeo in plays.

“On 27 March, at 4.25pm on that Friday night, Parag h a very small speech - ‘D and Mom, I am gay. I have kwn it since I was 10 years old’,” he ded.

Dr Mehta ded Parag revealed to him that he h kwn it since he was 10 years old but earlier he was confused. Parag told him that he thought he will hide fact until his far’s death so he won’t be embarrassed by his son’s sexuality. He also confided that he attempted suicide during his high school days but didn’t succeed.

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mits his homophobia

Dr Mehta said that ir life went from “ best of time” to “ worst of time”. In his speech, Dr Mehta ackwledges that he was a homophobic person and decided to find best “treatment centre” in country and find cure for it. After revelation, he went to a medical library and found out that re’s thing to be cured because it is t a defect or disease.

“I asked a simple question, ‘Do I love my son any less at 4.31 than I loved him at 4.25?’. And a  long pause and answer was, ‘, I still love him same’,” he said.

Netizens loved toast raised by a far for his gay son and many of m shared ir own of story. “It's really rare for an Indian d to be so accepting. Well done to him ❤️,” commented a user. “My son is gay...... re I have said it. Feels a lot better to ackwledge it openly in front of whole world. I'm lucky to have a son who is intelligent, funny and has a whole lot of friends who accept him for what he is,” commented ar user.

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(Im Credit: YouTube / Vaibhav Jain)