Sideways Position A week before Thanksgiving, Matt diLorenzo said the one thing his lover Vic Braunson had been dreading to hear. “I want you to meet my parents.” For all the miscellaneous lovers and hook-ups Vic had had in the past, never once had he been invited home with any of them. He’d never met any family member of anyone he’d gone out with—not even a sibling, and sure as hell not a parent. The thought of sitting across from two people whose son he slept with on a regular basis and having them judge his every move terrified him. He knew he wasn’t a catch in anyone’s book, and he dreaded anything Matt’s parents might say about him, in case they somehow changed his mind about loving him. The year Vic and Matt had met, when they’d still been in the touch-and-go stage of a friendshi

