Sophie Kietzmann’s Coming Out Story
Coming out as a lesbian to the people in my life was emotional and monumental, but the most important “coming out” I went through was coming out to myself.Coming out started with the realization that I was gay in the first place. I spent my entire childhood and...
Dakota Kuhn’s Coming Out Story
My name is Dakota Kühn. I’m 32 years old and I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. I’m a gay male (well, I have a male body at least) who also happens to fall under the trans umbrella. I specifically identify myself as gender fluid and non-binary. Everyone is always asking...
Adder Burn’s Coming Out Story
Coming out is a simple concept. It’s a transition from “before everyone knew” to “after,” as quick and illuminating as stepping out of a shadow into the sunlight. Yet this concise, clear concept rarely takes shape in our lives without a jagged execution, messy...
Alysse Dalessandro Santiago’s Coming Out Story
I am a queer femme. I don’t fit the stereotypical “queer look.” As a result, I feel like I come out all of the time in a lot of ways. Passing as straight can come as a privilege, especially when traveling, but the erasure of constantly having to tell folks that I am...
Sara Elise’s Coming Out Story
I began my "coming out" process when I arrived to University, self-proclaiming that "I think girls are hot" after making out with one at a high school party. I began searching for women I felt attracted to and landed on much of the women's basketball team (lol),...
Sarah Amann’s Coming Out Story
Rachel and I first got together long before either of us came out or had even accepted that we weren’t straight. Due to being in a very unaccepting environment, we had to hide our relationship for the first several years. The stress and confusion of it all placed...
Jaiiy Moses’ Coming Out Story
When did you know you were gay? That question is so familiar yet broad. When does one know they are attracted to anyone let alone the same sex when they are merely a child? I recall having a “boyfriend” as young as kindergarten. Society romanticizing the...
Jenna Vitelle’s Coming Out Story
I can’t remember a time where I wasn’t attracted to women. I think I sort of always knew since I was a little girl. As I got older, I masked it as “drunk curiosity”. I grew up in a very old school Italian and religious family therefore, I knew there was no way I could...
Chandler Wilson’s Coming Out Story
As a little kid, I never realized that my experiences were different from the other kids because, quite frankly, no one ever noticed or told me they were.I am a nonbinary AFAB person which means that my gender identity is neither 100% male nor 100% female, and I was...
Allie Iverson’s Coming Out Story
When I was 15, I was struggling with depression and anxiety... (still am!) It got so bad that my mom put me in treatment. I was there for 6 months. I did a lot of learning there, and a lot of self-work. My main goal was just to be happy and feel like I could do life...
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.