by James Hooley

Although I didn’t come out until nearly 30, I have such vivid memories of when I was five that I was “different” from other little boys but didn’t have the vocabulary to d...

by Roxanne Moore

My name is RoxAnne Moore. I live in Grand Forks. I’ve lived here most of my life. We have two kids. Cory is an FTM transgender, was born Michelle Lynn Moore, approximately five ...

by Nik Philmon

“Both of my parents are gay,” usually elicits oohs and ahhs at how easy it must have been to come out. The truth is a little stickier. My parents both had urges and limited ex...

by Spencer Smith

Right now I am sitting in the kitchen by myself; I have not spoken a single word in over two hours. My family is sitting in the room directly across from me – I can see their ba...

by Nicolas Hoover

I woke up that morning and it all came back—what I did the night before—it all came back to me in a flood, and my heart started to race: how I wrote it down, how I wrote it do...

by Rodrigo

The changes in life that we notice the most are the bold ones. Subtlety comes so easily to the secret-holders; we live in silence, and we barely hear our own echoes. But silence c...

After I began to come out to myself in my mid-30’s, I realized that I had always been gay. The rural community in which I grew up gave me all kinds of social messages: from the ...

by Jason Mergen and Perry Evans

Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can follow us on our adventure. We met Jason and Perry in Alexandria, MN. If you haI’m Perry Evans and I’m from, originally from Ashton, South Dakota. I’m Jason Mergen I grew up in a small town, well, the nearest town was actually Avon, Minnesota. Yep, we�...

by Jake T.

I entered college without having officially come out of the closet. So on the first day I met my new set of classmates in college, I told them, “I’m Jake. I love to read, and ...