By: Ann (without-an-e)

In reply to Ellen.

“I recently moved to a new city and have virtually no community here yet, so this week has made me so grateful for online community.”

So much, this. I moved to my current city 10 months ago, but spent the first 9 months in a monogamous relationship with the most “normal” of all cis-het guys. In addition to all my feelings about Orlando as a massive hate-crime tragedy, it also brought out the fact that I have no queer friends here yet, and all that biphobic self-shaming I do that maybe I’m not worthy of HAVING a queer community. People can say all the negative crap they want about social media, but I’ve been so grateful to be connected with my queer friends in my old city, and all the other places they’ve moved to.