Oh yay! I forgot your trip is SO soon! I hope you have an absolutely wonderful time. I hope the reunion goes well and you and carawj have a blast in St. Petersburg. It's always great to share a place you love with a person you love :)
It does sound like a great community despite the fact that you feel you can't openly be yourself there (*hugs*). I have a friend who's faced a similar situation this past year. She and her partner got married last June and then promptly move to Taiwan to teach. Unfortunately in Taiwan they have very different views on sexuality than they do in the western world and she and her wife have had to keep their marriage and relationship a secret from everyone they know there which I know has been very hard. But if anyone found out they could actually lose their jobs and stuff. It means that she doesn't interact online much anymore because she's worried about people seeing things and I think it's sad because she and her partner are such amazingly wonderful people and they spent so much time apart before they got married that it's a shame they've faced such strain in their first year of marriage. They seem to be surviving though. They're both strong people and they aren't planning to stay there forever so hopefully they'll soon be able to lead the life they both want. It just saddens me that there are parts of the world where people can't openly be who they are.
Anyway, enough sad talk. You're going to Russia YAY! :)
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Date: 2011-06-12 12:59 am (UTC)It does sound like a great community despite the fact that you feel you can't openly be yourself there (*hugs*). I have a friend who's faced a similar situation this past year. She and her partner got married last June and then promptly move to Taiwan to teach. Unfortunately in Taiwan they have very different views on sexuality than they do in the western world and she and her wife have had to keep their marriage and relationship a secret from everyone they know there which I know has been very hard. But if anyone found out they could actually lose their jobs and stuff. It means that she doesn't interact online much anymore because she's worried about people seeing things and I think it's sad because she and her partner are such amazingly wonderful people and they spent so much time apart before they got married that it's a shame they've faced such strain in their first year of marriage. They seem to be surviving though. They're both strong people and they aren't planning to stay there forever so hopefully they'll soon be able to lead the life they both want. It just saddens me that there are parts of the world where people can't openly be who they are.
Anyway, enough sad talk. You're going to Russia YAY! :)