Finding a community

#1

coming to terms with my queer identity I find it very hard to stay positive and feel fulfilled in an isolated world where I can find nobody to relate to, as a queer person growing up and living in a Muslim fundamentalist majority Arab country i find it very isolating and low key depressing, I have not taken the initiative to find a community before because of how unsafe it can be, and how paranoid we have to be for our safety, i find it very challenging to find growth alone or around people with regressive views(mainly cishet dudebros)

I am interested in knowing how do you cope?
and how do/did you find your queer peers/partners

#2

i relate to :sob::sob::sob: it’s so hard n it gets harder day after day and dunno what to do rather than just keep shutting my true self up
i think bout immigrate to some country that supports lgbtq community and defends their rights but i love home and my family but the thing is that i always have to pretend like i’m someone else specially when living in muslim place it’s not i’m not spiritual though but it’s awful when i had to act like i like men in front of my family members or friends it sucks, i joined this website to find someone who related to this and able to talk about it freely
thx guys
hope you’re doing great today

#3

It absoluetly sucks. While still living with my family, my mental health was completely going to shit. It imporved drastically after I moved away. So start working on your exit strategy. If you can’t move to a queer friendly country at least move to another city or away from your family