being queer in costa rica

Alexanderetc
4 min readJun 5, 2019

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my wife and i moved to CR one year ago this month. we found that there were quite a few gay men here but up to today I have only seen TWO lesbians in the whole area that we live in. I come from Oakland where I might encounter 10 or more lesbians just going to the store, so i am getting some really complicated feelings about being here.

I know there are lesbians in the big towns like San Jose but we live in a tiny…

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Alexanderetc

Historically Curious, Queer, Aging, Anglophile, World traveler, lifetime researcher with a sarcastic bent