diff --git a/gitea/gitea.py b/gitea/gitea.py
index 6528ce4..368b3a2 100644
--- a/gitea/gitea.py
+++ b/gitea/gitea.py
@@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ class Gitea:
     CREATE_TEAM = """/orgs/%s/teams"""  # <orgname>
 
     def __init__(
-        self, gitea_url: str, token_text=None, auth=None, verify=True, log_level="INFO"
+        self,
+        gitea_url: str,
+        token_text=None,
+        auth=None,
+        verify=True,
+        log_level="INFO",
+        # example: "socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050"
+        proxy=None,
     ):
         """Initializing Gitea-instance
 
@@ -42,6 +49,12 @@ class Gitea:
         self.url = gitea_url
         self.requests = requests.Session()
 
+        if proxy:
+            self.requests.proxies = {
+                "http": proxy,
+                "https": proxy,
+            }
+
         # Manage authentification
         if not token_text and not auth:
             raise ValueError("Please provide auth or token_text, but not both")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2b3200e..95c490e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-requests
+requests[socks]
 pytest
 immutabledict
\ No newline at end of file