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I was born and grew up in a small village in Vinnytsia region. As a child, I did not like much to play with toy cars and guns, but I was interested in mother’s cosmetics and dresses. Besides, I liked not only to try them on but also…

Hi! I am 37 years old. I am a white well-educated woman, ethnical Ukrainian with Romani roots. I am a polyamorous lesbian, mother of my child, agnostic. I live and work in Kharkiv. A good while I have considered the coming out to be…

It took me a lot of time to write this article. This is not about the coming out itself and my attitude to it but about the definition of a “personal story”. What should it be, this personal story? Is it a story about my first…

Have I ever asked myself about the coming out? I have never asked myself. I have never wanted to keep it in secret, to change it or to reject it. I have always known the answer because I have never had the question. Despite all other…

A story. My story. My short story. I would like to start as it is in the American films the most people know. My name is Anya. I am 22. I am pansexual. And I have a heterosexual marriage. Actually, it is rather difficult to write a story of…

It is very difficult to describe emotional sufferings of one and a half decades in several dozens of lines. I will try. To be oneself is to feel wholeness within one’s being. It is not to be afraid of sidelong glances or gossips. It…

I will be soon 35 years old. And I have been an openly gay since I was 17. My mother took it well. Probably she has known it always. I did not even have to explain anything to her. My friend came to visit me and stayed overnight. We fell…

Hello everybody. My name is Yan, and I came out for the first time at the age of 17. When I was 15 years old, I met my first adult partner. With him I understood, that I am gay, and this is for the rest of my life. We had been meeting for…

It was as far as 1995. A fussy teen-ager and idealist, I railed against my family in the attempt to move from the province to my lover in the capital city. My mother did…

When I meet new people, I introduce myself Kazuma and ask them to address me using the words in masculine gender. My biological sex is feminine, and I am transgender. I did not have any…