ABSTRACT
The 26-year-old George Kathros, Executive VP of his family’s company and future leader of the luxury cruise yacht division, has been living a lie. He is a homosexual; he knows he was that way and realized his sexual preference at the age of nine when he was repeatedly raped by an older cousin. He did not mind the abuse and knew that something felt right. He had always found his cousin attractive. In Turkey, homosexuality is a yip—that is, in its simplest terms, a societal no-no. His father rejected him when he announced his sexual preference at the age of twelve. He had never been his father’s favorite son. That role was reserved for his older brother, Oropo. Oropo was always better at sports; he also had a way with the ladies. George had found everything awkward about the “other” sex. That was because he knew who he was at that early age. Even though George was no such in high school or college where he received a BS in Management and an MBA, his father did not treat him quite as well as his brother as indicated by Oropo’s position in the company. Oropo had been sent to the United States for an education as George had been; yet, Oropo held a higher position in the company than George did. George’s and his father’s relationship did not worsen through these years, and George did get put in the family business in a fairly responsible position, but his personal life was never discussed again since his “coming out” at the age of twelve. George had been secretly very grateful to his father for being sent to the United States for his college education. It was in the States that he learned about gay community life and 596had had several relationships to explore his sexuality. He swore he would come back to the States to live somehow and still fulfill family obligations.
