In the LGBT community and in everyday language, the expression “coming out” (of the closet) indicates the moment in which a person openly acknowledges their sexual orientation. In this sense, coming out is a fundamental moment of disclosure and self-assertion that coincides with the declaration of one’s gender identity. The idea underlying the “Shoot Me and I Bleed Dior” project is to reconstruct ​- with photography, text and interviews - the psycho-emotional process that precedes and is completed by this revelation, probing the attitudes and states of mind of young people, who not only have to deal with the typical difficulties of a transitional age such as adolescence, but also with the stress derived from the social stigma that still exists in some regions of society, including school and family. The “Minority Stress” model (Meyer, 2003) describes the high levels of chronic stress experienced by those who belong to minority groups. Minority stress is caused by various factors, including a lack of support from society and disadvantaged socioeconomic status, although its most familiar underlying causes are prejudice and discrimination. The project aims to collect and tell the stories of young people who are completing the coming-out process. The name of the project is derived from a phrase on a T-shirt worn by one of the boys who was photographed and designed by an Italian artist following the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on 12​ June 2016.