by James Heffron

“But I love Katie Phillips, I can’t be gay.” This was the mantra with which I breathed nearly every breath since puberty. There is no doubt that I loved, and still love, Kat...

by William Reddish

I grew up in a very large Southern Baptist Church community. It was a “mega-church” in the south with very wealthy members. My parents taught Sunday school every week, which o...

by Rick

It was Christmas Eve 2002, and I was visiting home from college in Philadelphia, where I was openly gay. I had decided that it was time for me to share that information with my fa...

by J. Priola

My story starts with one really lonely day at school when one of my classmates called me worthless. I sat there and saw all my friends watching as he put my self-esteem to -23. I ...

by Justin Adkins

As a little girl I didn’t know about anything queer. It seemed like my parents made sure that I was sheltered from all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. It c...

by Par Kermani

I’m twenty-one years old now, living on my own and working my way through school. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in a highly conservative Iranian family. Though ...

by Daniel Cohen

Interested in being in a Video Story? Just let me know and we’ll set up a time and place to meet. Watch all the IFD Video Stories here. So before I was working in Boston I wa...

by Desmond K.

I am, at heart, a storyteller. Nevermind that I’m in law school, or that I’ve never finished a document I’d refer to as a story, but only fits and starts, bits and fragments...

by Nathan Manske

FEATURED ARTIST – Nick Manske STORY by Nathan Manske I guess I always knew, but it wasn’t until my late teens that I really came to terms with it: I had special powers. It was...