stories

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…

My name is Vitalii, I am 23 years old. Now I can tell without any problem that I am gay. Please do not think that I announce it every time when I get on a bus or enter…

It was as far back as 2004. At that time I lived in Novosibirsk and my parents lived in the city of Kryvyi Rih. Then the time came, when I decided to confess to my mother that…