El-Attar describes the freedom she found to be queer as a liberating and life-changing experience. But not one that was all good - two years after arriving in the UK, at 17, her family found out about her queer identity, and their relationships fell apart. Though forced to leave home at a young age and to go through a separate and invasive asylum process, El-Attar recognized her own privilege as compared to her "LGBTQ+ siblings" back in Egypt, and was determined to continue and fight for their rights as well.[1]