Jessie Standafer’s Coming Out Story
11 years ago, I fell in love. Hard. She was tall, and so talented, and moody, and funny, and all I wanted was to be near her. When I fell in love with her, I finally, FINALLY understood what all the teenage commotion was about. I understood why my older...
Emily Gray’s Coming Out Story
For most of my life, I just assumed that I was straight. I’ve always liked boys and dated boys. I’ve always found other genders to be very attractive, but it took me a while to realise that I was actually attracted to them! My junior year of high school,...
Eli Erlick’s Coming Out Story
Coming out will significantly change the lives of almost all transgender people. I opened up about my gender and sexuality when I was 8, in 2003, before I even learned the word “trans” or “queer.” It was a tiny town in rural Northern California. While I...
Drew Parker’s Coming Out Story
Coming out is not easy. Coming out also never fully ends. I should know, I’ve come out 3 times now! It took me a long time to realise my identity, to accept myself, and to tell those around me who I truly am. My freshman year of high school, 2009, I...
Sexuality 101, Let’s explain sexuality!
If we were to tell you that sexuality can be fluid for some LGBTQ+ members, would you believe us? At many varied points in our lives, we often heard "you're in a phase" or "you're just confused", which may be true, there is no shame in not knowing how you...
Nic Bean’s Coming Out Story
The term coming out always amuses me like it's something you only do once. But that's far from the case. In my experience, coming out was a long process and the hardest person I had to come out to was myself, and the reality is you spend your life coming...
Jess & Sophie’s Coming Out Story
We never really thought we were going to come out, being in a relationship with another female never really crossed our mind for most of our young teenage lives. When we were around 16, we ‘met’ on twitter as we both shared a love for the same band… from...
Kerrie Hughes’ Coming Out Story
I was 14 years old and I was sat in the dark in my bedroom putting eyeshadow on my chin and wearing a cap covering all my long hair, in an oversized sweatshirt covering my chest. I would go to chat rooms and talk to new friends and take photographs of...
Shane Hirst’s Coming Out Story
From a young age, I always felt slightly different than other girls I went to school with or hung out with. I always felt like I related more with my guy friends. I’d have boyfriends up until I was 19, just because I thought that was the normal thing to...
Maika Montminy’s Coming Out Story
At age 22, I had quite an interesting relationship with my gender since I was a kid. Back then, I didn’t have the words to describe how I felt and it’s still difficult sometimes, but I’m getting better. So, everybody take a seat and get ready to go back in...
Coming Out Genderfluid
Identifying as genderfluid comes under the non-binary umbrella. Like their non-binary relatives, gender is not black and white. It’s simply a colourful exploration of their true selves. To identify as genderfluid, it’s the concept that gender identity is not fix. This basically means those who identify as genderfluid don’t identify with a fixed gender.
They can appear masculine, feminine or neutral and still be fabulous.