we exist

I’ve been thinking long where I should start. So I will start with me being banderivka, lesbian, photographer and DJ. I was born in Lviv and live there now. I am 35 years old. I’ve never had a coming out as such because…

Hello everyone. Soon I’ll be 29 and I am gay. I apologize in advance if my story is too confused and complicated but this is the life I live, it is confused and complicated. It happens sometimes and, perhaps, this is more interesting…

My mother suspected that I was homosexual when I was a teenager as my girlfriends often stayed for a night. There was a time when I lived abroad and my family was in Ukraine. Once, going through my things, my mother found a letter that my…

I have been always against the appearance of stereotype FtM. But the trouble was that my parents did not like my creative haircut, and I had to remove this all with a shaver. So, I came to the 5th year of study like that. The professor…

I am a human being! Usually, as my profession requires, I write objectively. I guess, this story is not like that. That’s because I will write about myself and my loved one. For me, it began rather traditional as for most homosexuals.…

Participants and central figures of We Exist campaign made video supporting coming out. Open gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people tell about their coming out and how it changes their lives. Coming out is public recognition of…

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…