Coming Out Museum Encounters
18 06 – 04 07 2024
Coming out is a constant, never-ending process of discovering one’s own non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identity. It begins with the first moments of awareness of one’s own identity which differs from the dominant one, and continues with numerous steps of acceptance. There are many important moments along the way, milestones in understanding one’s own identity, its acceptance, moments of acceptance from the environment, and finally living non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identities openly and completely.
Coming Out Museum (COME) collects and presents stories about these turning points, as well as objects and works of art that symbolize these coming out stories and act as memory triggers. Through them, we try to point out the process of awareness and acceptance of personal identity, which is different from the one we usually build according to the dominant cultural and social pattern. The goal of the project is to emphasize the link with experiences related to the wider LGBTIQ+ community by highlighting personal stories, from individual to universal. Each shared story is also an invitation to add new ones.