Story:

In puberty, I started to realize that I felt ‘different’. I didn’t see it as good or bad, but somehow neutrally ‘different’. Until not so long ago, queer people were mentioned exclusively in the context of mockery and disparagement.

In the last years of the 90s, there was no community in Pula. Internet forums were in their infancy, so I didn’t have the opportunity to detect what exactly made me feel different. I didn’t have the opportunity to meet people similar to me in terms of queerness. When one evening I came across the movie ‘Gia’ with Angelina Jolie (who was a wet dream for most lesbians) and saw two women love each other, somehow everything fell into place – the feeling of being ‘different’ crystallized. I realized that I was also attracted to women and accepted it as another aspect of my being.