I’m From Driftwood
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Coming Out as Gender Expansive to Family
I’m Andrew Knips. I’m from St. Paul, Minnesota. I grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s and in a really, really loving, caring home. My parents provided me wit...
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I’m Kristi Waters. I am from Corpus Christi, Texas, and I am a drag queen. Started in Corpus doing drag and I kind of flourished more over here in San Antonio. Around th...
A Gay Man’s Journey From Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance
I am Harrison David Eppright, and I’m from Austin, Texas. About 1960… I’ll say 1968, I came across an article in Time Magazine. I was 13 years old, came acro...