by Ryan Leach

My Uncle JimBob was the first gay person I ever knew. I am the second. JimBob was 80’s gay and fabulous. He and his partner Vance would show up to family holidays in fantastic f...

by Drew

I’ve been in hiding for about 20 years. I actually came out in the early 80’s to most of my family and by the time I was 23, had come out to everyone close to me. I moved to N...

by Daniel Mitchell

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland in November of 1967. When my mother and father divorced a couple of years later, my mom and I moved in with my grandmother. She was the love of m...

by Chris Allen Mason

I grew into a young man in the upper/middle class suburb of Houston, Texas known as Clear Lake City. Home of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. My dad scored an amazing job with a NAS...

by David Salstrom

My story began many a year ago, but back then, I didn’t realize the significance. I’m now in my early 40s, and I always knew that I was gay, even back when I was a child. What...

by Frank H.

Frank’s previous IFD story can be read here. – Life is like a book. My experience seems pretty typical for a gay man. My young years through college were miserable at times....

by Stewart Adams

I grew up in the church-going 70’s in a very Pentecostal family. Our church’s dos and don’ts were really all don’ts. So strict was the church that we didn’t even have a ...

by Lou R.

I don’t have a story. I have generalizations of gay life defined by me, by decade. I was born in the 1960’s with only memories of Vietnam and civil rights. In the 70’s, bein...