Felicia Mutterer is the founder of STRAIGHT. Previously, the journalist worked at the state broadcasters SWR and RBB for twelve years, hosting several sports programs. Between 2014 and 2015, Felicia also worked as executive communications officer of Deutschlandstiftung Integration, a foundation dedicated to creating equal opportunities for immigrants.

“During my journalistic trainee program (2006-2008) at SWR I had the opportunity to work on more in depth stories. One of these stories was homosexuality in sports 2007. I realized that in Germany this is still a very closeted world and that people are afraid to ‘come out’ in the media’ and many are living double lives because they are afraid that being a ‘gay athlete’ will negatively affect their image and ultimately their brand.

In 2014 I returned to this topic in my last feature for rbb inforadio. The piece was about Lesbian Women in Business and how they deal with being gay. Two of the women were out and the third, a police woman, high up in the Police Department was still in the closet. Like in 2007 with the closeted athletes, she too - was afraid of the stigma of being gay. She faced two forms of discrimination. The first, being a female in a ‘man’s world’ – the police department and second, the stigma of being a ‘lesbian woman’. I realized that over the last 7 years some baby steps had been taken towards over-coming homophobia but still the cliches exist.”

STRAIGHT -  a different perspective of female homosexuality. The project started as a print magazine in 2015 and the founders have published 5 issues up to now. They launched the first issue together with a spot where it was implied that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel was in a relationship with a woman. This spot flew around the world gaining 15 million clicks on just twitter alone.  The vision of STRAIGHT is to create an alternative, more current version of female homosexuality.