Being part of the LGBTQ2S+ community comes with extra challenges as children of immigrant parents whose cultures and beliefs are often opposed to their queer identities. In this episode, host Karina Zapata speaks with Cece Chow, Camila Gomez and Abhi Sanhi, all from Calgary, Alberta, about their experiences as queer children of immigrants. We discuss the feeling of not belonging in both cultural spaces and queer spaces, and how the guests learned to live authentically — as their full selves — despite the adversities they faced.
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