Tatenda Mandenga stood before a congregation in a downtown Montreal cathedral on Sunday and spoke the words he was long forced to swallow in his home country. "I'm gay and I own it. This is who I am," he said. The 30-year-old refugee from Zimbabwe, who arrived in Canada last November via Roxham Road, fled his country due to his sexuality, saying he was not free to be himself. "There's freedom for me here," he said of Montreal. "I'm so excited to meet other people like me, so this is home for me.