I’m From Driftwood
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He Went to a Rally… and Met His Future Husband
My name is Larry Picard. I’m from Holyoke, Massachusetts. So I met my first, well, my only girlfriend when I was 19 years old, and I was a singing waiter and she was a s...
School District Tried to Erase LGBTQIA+ Families–And Failed
So I’m Peggy Gillespie and I’m living in North Hampton, Massachusetts. Back in 1993, I was a mom of a three-year-old multiracial child. In preschool, my kid was gr...
Trans Man Thought He Had It All—Until He Found His True Self
I am Criss Christoff Smith. I grew up on a farm in Jamaica. When I was about six years old, I was on my grandmother’s farm playing with my older brother. My grandmother ...