I’m From South Charleston, OH.

I am in fifth grade, coming down the short hallway that connects the cafeteria to the hall with the lockers in it when it happens. Aaron, one of the “bad kids,” one of the boy...

by Bodhi

I’m From Sydney, Australia.

I’ve always known that I was gay. Well before I had even heard the word, or knew its full implications. I never believed it to be wrong, how could love be so? But growing up in ...

by Ray Parisi

I’m From Bohemia, NY.

Ben and I jumped into the back seat of a taxi feeling the affects of the night’s drinking.  I blurted out our final destination to the driver and a drunken make-out session unf...

I’m From Hutchinson, KS.

I’ve never fit in. I’ve always been the one white sock in a drawer of colored ones. The one who lost its mate so long ago, it’s forgotten that it ever had one in the first p...

by Dave Mittlefehldt

I’m From Jamestown, NY.

I’m not gay, but my younger son is. You may have read his story; he’s from Clear Lake, TX. I was clueless of my son’s sexual orientation until he revealed it. Rafi came out...

by Austin Scott

I’m From Edmond, OK.

“It’s Liza with a ‘Z’ not Lisa with an ‘S’ ‘cause Lisa with an ‘S’ goes…” I twirl around and point with both index fingers to the man next to me.  He is in ...

by Bruce Ransom

I’m From Sulphur, LA.

After picking up my 72-year-young mother at LAX, we arrived at my apartment in West Hollywood. Walking up the steps to my building, me carrying her huge luggage (bigger than her 5...

I’m From Farmington, CT.

It was at the airport check-in counter that I first saw him. Sweatpants and a sweater. I can’t remember his face anymore. Waiting to board the plane, all I could do was look at ...

by Danielle S.

I’m From Long Island, NY.

I’m a late bloomer. I came out…(I always have to figure it up) 16 years ago, when i was 33. Between one moment and the next, one as a straight person, the next as a…not stra...