Originally posted by wolfaire

This is actually so sad. I used to live in a small city and people there are just so homophobic. My parents are religious too and we are the minority in my country so it was like multiple burdens to me. Then I decided to move out of town, alone, to continue my study in highschool as I needed a better, more accepting environment. Glad my parents supported that tho (although I lied that I want to move to get better education).

For college I tried to move to the Netherlands. I got accepted but I only got partial scholarship and I come from lower-middle class family (even compared to other people in my third world country). So you can imagine how poor we are actually. Then I decided to move to another big city in my country for uni as I get full scholarship in that Uni and later on to Singapore. But life was hard before uni so I have to act straight until I can show a lil bit of my feminine side in my final year of college. Now that I have graduated I tried to get master degree in the UK/Canada. But it's still a long way to go...

Point is, you gotta keep it all inside until you have a better environment, while trying to be the best of you. It will be so hard to study hard, to focus on building your life while constantly denying yourself and being hurt all the time but I pray for us all that it will get better in the future. Hard work and sacrifices never lie.