LBGT.BG. information for LGBT+ people in Bulgaria
Clear, verified and free. No shame, no lectures, no waiting.
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Health
The body and the head. Verified, free, and without moralising.
Rights & organisations
What you are owed, and who will stand next to you when you ask for it.
Faith & self
The two questions asked most often at night: is it a sin, and is it a choice.
We are not new
A century in which we were here — with names, documents and losses.
Community
Voices, notes, stickers, and something for distraction.
- ConfessionsStories from people who were exactly where you are now.
- BlogWhat changes on the site, why it was decided that way, and what is next.
- Thank-you boxLeave a note for whoever opens this page after you.
- StickersFree to print and to stick wherever it seems necessary.
- GamesSomething daft and harmless to keep your head busy for five minutes.
The site itself
Who we are, what we do not record, and how to correct us.
The three things nobody told you
Everything here is written in plain language, checked against official sources, and free forever.
Mental health
Coming out, shame, loneliness, a family that does not understand, anxiety, depression. How to find a therapist who will not try to “cure” you.
EnterSexual health
What biology class should have covered. Sex without fear, condoms and lube, sexually transmitted infections, testing, consent.
EnterHIV & PrEP
What PrEP is, where to get it in Bulgaria and what it costs. Why HIV is not the end today. What “undetectable = untransmittable” means. What to do within 72 hours.
EnterWhat we wanted to hear back then
Being gay is okay.
Having HIV is okay.
Meeting people who do not understand is okay too — everyone moves at their own pace.
What matters is realising it, and setting off down your own road of self-love. That road is what lets you keep the kindness in you, instead of going dark and letting life grind you down.
It looks like the end of everything when you are young and shut out of life. Then you blink and you are ten years older, in your own home, next to the person you love. And it is good. It is good because one day you decided to stay.
And more
Your rights
What Bulgarian law says — and what it does not. How to file a discrimination complaint.
Organisations
Who actually does what. Honestly, without the marketing.
Faith
If the Church threw you out but God did not. What the Bible actually says, and how to walk back in.
Confessions
Real stories from Bulgarians who were at the bottom and are not any more.
We are not new
Gay and lesbian lives in history, in science, and in Bulgaria. And the memory of those we lost.
Stickers
Copy and drop them in the chat. Not everything has to be serious.
Thank-you box
What are you grateful for today? Even something small.
Why we exist at all
- Because it was unbearably hard to work out what PrEP is and where to get it.
- Because nobody told us that on treatment HIV becomes untransmittable, and that life carries on.
- Because the information that does exist is scattered across websites from 2008 that barely open and read like an EU grant report.
- Because everyone deserves to find the answer in five minutes, not five years.
Not finding what you came for?
We may not have written it yet — this site is new and still growing. If it is something you needed and it is not here, tell us: what gets written next is decided by what people ask for.