by Ethan Blustein

I came out at the age of 12 as gay. Even now I’m not sure where I got that word from or how I knew to say it or what it even meant for that matter. I also wasn’t completely su...

by Allen Brandt

My sophomore year of South Dakota State, I was SLOWLY coming to terms with my sexuality. After I gained 40 pounds of fat my Freshmen year, I knew I had to make a change. So, I too...

by Travis Warby

When I came out it was like a bomb had gone off in my town. I was 14 and the only openly gay person in my entire high school. I did it very suddenly, basically I just got tired of...

by Kenneth Rainer

I attended a small Baptist church and a somewhat small high school. I have lesbian grandparents, which I believe assisted in this stigma against homosexuality in my household. I b...

by Jesus Roberto Rivera

My town is 95 miles west of San Juan and if you are a fan of The Amazing Race, parts of my town were featured a couple of seasons ago. In hindsight, I had a happy childhood, but l...

I am an 18-year-old gay teenager. Combine that with the fact that I have severe ADD and acne, and am a uncoordinated nerd, and you have a typical high school outcast. The funny th...

by Joshua Schwab

I guess I always thought of my life as one long story. The first person to know I was gay was my grandma, and by first I mean she knew before me. For the most part I didn’t seem...

by Frank-Joseph Frelier

Story and art by Frank-Joseph Frelier We called ourselves “The Jupiter Moons.” It started at Kimberly Hobson’s docks, the summer of 2003. She always threw the best river par...

by Brett Harris

In the crisp fall of 1977 I was a strapping and husky 16-year-old. A close (and closeted) high school friend of mine decided we should visit the “Florentine” Night Club; the p...