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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…

LGBT community members of many countries in the world celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11.In English, that is the source language of the term, it originally soundslike "coming out of the closet". The disclosure of…

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…

Оn May 18 UPO "Gay Alliance Ukraine" together with All-Ukrainian non-governmental civic human rights initiative Coalition for Combating Discrimination in Ukraine (CCD) and Information Center for Human Rights presented the…