By Paula Carlson - Surrey North Delta Leader

Amar Sangha was a 14-year-old Frank Hurt honour roll student with a dilemma.

He was attracted to men, but he wanted to like women.

Putting aside his adolescent crushes on Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and actor Michael J. Fox, he began seeing a psychiatrist with the hope of becoming “straight.”

It didn’t work.

After three years, the counselling sessions came to an end, and Sangha began to accept who he was: a homosexual.

Twenty years later, in a home in North Delta, Sangha sits next to his mother Jaspal, who is wearing a sunny yellow sari in honour of recent Vaisakhi celebrations.