I used to be a villager... (and still am at heart, since I live in Dublin) Back then, a sex date with a guy I fancied a lot proved that I was "that innocent". I'm not sure how old he was, but let's say...
I had relocated to Spain just eight months before and the change of scene from Dublin to Barcelona was beyond what I had expected. In Dublin, I lived a very sheltered life, very naive and innocent and didn’t get myself involved in the gay scene. It just didn’t interest me. When I moved here, I...
As a child, my grandmother would always tell me. ‘Stay away from those white kids, they ain’t nothin’ but trouble’. This sounded racist butI failed to understand is that having been born in the 1910s, the majority of her encounters with whites were terrible.
This is a story from an anonymous reader about how their experience with alcohol and drugs since a very young age and how they have come out through this tunnel with the help of AA. “I started drinking and using drugs when I was about 16. At the time, I...
I was asleep when my mum woke me up softly. Tears were running down her face. She looked confused. “Come to the living room, please. I don’t want to wake your brother up”. There is no right time for people to learn you are LGBT. There is no wrong...
“Some stories are very personal. And so this is. I don’t mind people know it, but I wouldn’t like people to know something so personal before meeting me. It is a part of myself I prefer to choose with who I will share it and when.” This story...
Have you ever had a dystopian nightmare? The kind of nightmare that a far-right-wing government takes over your country and the police is raiding your house. If you belong to a minority, you have much higher chances of having such a night vision, or worse, you may be living in one right now.
> Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins, and I believe I know why. Before leaving Greece, I experienced the rise of the far-right and realised one thing. Pride, combined with ignorance, paves the shortest path to fascism. When you are proud of something you haven’t accomplished,...
My HIV story started in 2014 when one of my dreams got true; I got accepted as a member of the cabin crew of Emirates Airlines. I was preparing to get my visa to move to Dubai and got advised to do some tests in my home country before moving over.
Touch my hands and kiss me on the cheeks Living for me has always been a sort of risk I don’t fear or praise any invisible thing My only enemy is resting beneath my skin
It's not often that I'm asked to talk about questionmark. But that happened a few weeks ago and in the post below you can watch my interview [https://www.kweer.io/post/building-a-more-inclusive-lgbtq-community-through-stories-kweer-blah-interview-with-questionmark] and learn more about me and why I'm doing questionmark. [https:...
