At first, I didn’t plan on coming out to my mom until I get a job, but I loved my partner too much. I considered her part of the family and I wanted her to go on more trips with us. That was my motivation to tell my mom. In…

I might’ve come out around 15–16 years old. To whom I couldn’t remember, it’s been too long. With my classmates, I didn’t overtly come out but slowly they knew, it’s not like I hid it. That was then, and this is now. Now people can just look at me and…

A long moment of silence began to appear between me and my mom. After a little while, she knew I hadn’t told dad yet so she said she’d tell him for me. I only heard what my mom told me that by the end of the conversation with dad, he…

If I could reflect on the most memorable parts of our wedding planning period, it first had to be when I came back to Lào Cai and decided to tell my parents about Alex, and secondly has to be when we both lit incense and stood before the altar at…

Content warning: child abuse. In my case, I didn’t exactly come out; my family found out. Since I was a kid, I acted out; I only hung out with the boys and didn’t play with dolls like the other girls. When I was older and started using social media, my…

We were in a long-distance relationship so I came out over the phone. After I told him, he went completely silent. I couldn’t see his facial expression nor did I know what he was thinking or feeling. I started to worry and wondered if this truth would end our relationship…

It took a long time of panicking about my sexuality before I recognized that I’m bisexual. When I was in elementary school, I remember having crushes on both boys and girls, but since I was so little, my feelings weren’t entirely clear. When I got to high school, I was…

School has to be the place where I feel most comfortable because I haven’t come out to my family yet. But with my friends, I am free to express myself. It’s been this way since 6th grade. …

The biggest “coming out” I’ve ever had to do was probably to myself. It was a really long period of time, too. When I got to high school, our family already had an Internet connection, but back then I couldn’t understand why I was so scared to even look up…