Studying sexualities in Romania is interesting as it has gone through major socio-economic and political changes in the past few decades and has recently joined the European Union. In this study, we will focus on the differences in the content of personals between men seeking men and men seeking women, as sexuality in Romania is a contested issue.

We collected the data from a Romanian Internet website in spring 2007. In this study, we focused only on personals posted by men living Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The final sample size is 380, with 187 men seeking men and 193 men seeking women.

Our results show that men seeking women provided more information on themselves than men seeking men. A point worth noting is that 26 percent of the men seeking men personals included a photograph. Even though the percentage is much higher for men seeking women and that the difference is statistically significant, this 26 percent suggests that some people are willing to reveal their alternative sexualities and resist the relatively homophobic culture in Romania.

The results suggest that some people with alternative sexualities are no longer hiding in Romania. Nonetheless, the percentage of people in Romania who are out or are comfortable with their alternative sexualities is unknown. While the results show that some Romanian men are more open about expressing their sexualities than others, there are still many obstacles affecting how people choose to share and express their sexualities in Romania.