My talk will consist of two parts: a comparison of grammatical gender systems in Ukrainian and Russian and a sociolinguistic study on gender-inclusive language forms, used by Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking LGBT*QIA+ individuals. The main research objective of the study was to investigate gender-inclusive language forms . The data were collected during my stay as visititing scholar at the SFB 1646 „Sprachliche Kreativität in der Kommunikation“ from Nov 2024 to May 2025 by a combination of a written questionnaire and personal sociolinguistic interviews. There were 30 participants (10 native speakers of Ukrainian and 20 native speakers of Russian) , who are currently resident in Germany. The majority of the participants (both Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking) were in their 20s at the time of the interviews. The majority of the participants (both Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking) were in their 20s at the time of the interviews. The study shows that there are significant similarities in the use of gender-inclusive language forms by both the Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking participants, e.g., in employment of the plural pronoun “they” (in reference to a single individual), English borrowings (such as the word “sibling”), mixed number agreement in a single clause and extensive preference for feminine forms (sometimes used as gender default). There are, however, differences in perception of grammaticality and preference for the use of innovative gender-inclusive forms between the Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking participants. In addition, there is a profound difference in the participants’ desire to be creative in regard to gender-inclusive forms in their native languages: the majority of Ukrainian-speaking participants would like to be creative, while the majority of Russian-speaking participants would prefer to use the conventional gender forms.