David Lovric’s Coming Out Story

My outing is kind of weird, cause I’m only out to my mother, friends and followers. The rest of my family doesn’t know it because they’re Catholic Christians and very old fashioned. But most of them live in my home country Croatia, so I really don’t have to worry about them for now.

One day I kissed a friend of mine and started to catch feelings for him. A few weeks after meeting up and making out, not knowing what that was about, I talked with my mother. All I said was in total fear of rejection was ‘I might be bisexual.’

After a short moment of silence which felt like the longest time of my life mom just answered: ‘Alright, did we already talk about anal sex? Do you have a boyfriend already?’ and that was it! There was no rejection and I will be forever thankful that my mom reacted like that – even though the rest of my family is old fashioned and close-minded.

One day afterwards I talked with some friends about it, and they just said that they knew it already and asked if I’m really bisexual or just gay. I wasn’t able to answer that question at that time. The last person I talked to was my best friend, she was shook and answered that she has to think about it.

“My sexuality doesn’t affect anyone’s lives”

I will never understand that answer cause it wouldn’t affect her life. In the following weeks, we kind of split up and the friendship died. Which is very sad and shocking to me. My sexuality doesn’t affect anyone’s lives.

5 years later I started to feel comfortable as a gay man and started with makeup, which got me to the happy place that I am now! I can be whoever I want and be as creative as I want to be. And I always say, ‘get yourself a man who can do both… or everything!’ which describes me perfectly. 😉

Doing makeup as a masculine gay guy is always a big struggle when it comes to dating. Most of the gays are still using “masc for masc” and live by that. So, as a makeup artist, a lot of people immediately friendzone me, even though I’m not wearing a full face of makeup all the time. I wish that there would be more open people who don’t just judge on appearance or jobs.

So I’m here to show the world that even masculine man, gay or straight or anything else – can wear makeup. Which won’t change their behaviour or gender. I’m finally living my best life, I’m self-employed and will appear in some new LGBTQIA+ TV shows, later this year. You can do everything if you work for it!

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