I'm From Driftwood
The stories on I’m From Driftwood send a simple but powerful message to LGBTQIA+ people everywhere: You are not alone. I’m From Driftwood combats isolation and creates empathy to build a more understanding and accepting world. These are our stories, told in our own voices.
Latest Coming Out Stories
I’m From Rocky Mount, VA.
I’m 21 now but when I was 9, my mom enrolled me in the YMCA Summer Program. I found that my best friend ‘R’ from school was going to be there too and I was so excited. Our mo...
I’m From Deep River, ON, Canada.
I sat down. She gazed at me, sitting peacefully. I don’t know why I was scared. I knew that there was no reason to be. She wouldn’t care in the slightest, but still my stomach ...
I’m From Miami, FL.
The day I came out was a whirlwind. I first told my sister during the mid-afternoon hours while she was playing Xbox. I proceeded to read her a letter I had written to my parents o...
I’m From Columbia, SC – Video Story.
Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can read about the adventure we had and some of the stories we collected. If you have...
I’m From Battle Creek, MI.
I was raised in a middle class neighborhood called “The Numbered streets.” I looked out the back of the house at a Plumbing supply store. My father worked in the HVAC field and...
I’m From Palm Springs, CA – Video Story.
My name is Gill, I’m From Palm Springs, I’m a middle-aged guy, I came out 15 years ago so I’m still an adolescent as far as my gay life down here. That being said, I’m part...
I’m From Dallas, TX.
No, it was not an overnight change. This was an event years in the making. Then again, it’s not like anyone was going to think otherwise, were they? What with all the pro-gay pro...
I’m From Riverbank, CA.
I grew up in a Roman Catholic Chicano household and kept my sexuality a secret, having the pressures of getting married someday and having children of my own. I know how it is to b...
I’m From Morton Grove, IL.
Sometimes it’s not only going to get better, sometimes it’s okay right from the start. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in the 1960s, and I knew from a very young age that m...
I’m From Lewiston, NY.
I grew up in Lewiston, NY which is a small town not too far from Niagara Falls. Back then the only thing that made me different was the fact that I was hearing-impaired. Somehow be...
I’m From Hagerstown, MD.
I don’t know when I first realized that I found girls attractive, but I have for as long as I can remember. I was raised first as a Christian, then a few years as a Quaker, then ...
I’m From Honolulu, HI.
From the time I started school, the divide between me and the other students was unbearable: I would dress like a boy, I couldn’t relate or hang out with other girls, and boys th...
