When I immigrated some seven years ago, I was quite lonely for a long time, but now I feel so much better. I do miss my parents and my brother somewhat, but I'm also glad to have a safe distance from my Catholic relatives. Most of my friends from high school grew to be mildly sexist, homophobic people too, and I'm glad my life doesn't revolve around them.
Here pretty much all my friends are queer, and I came out as bi, and everything has been lovely. Finally. For a while it felt like it would never be. And my best friend came to visit from Seattle a couple of weeks ago, and I love her so much, and my partner is close with her too, and we were all really gay together and had the best of times.
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