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![From Dolls to Disney, Gay Artist Advises “Don’t Stop Your Children From Exploring Their Imagination.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/josef.png)
From Dolls to Disney, Gay Artist Advises “Don’t Stop Your Children From Exploring Their Imagination.”
Hi there. My name is Jozef Szekeres and I’m from Sydney, Australia. As a boy, I knew that I was a little bit different from the other boys and girls. Well, actually, probably I ...
![Story Update: Michael Anastasio on Grief, the Holidays, and the Healing Power of Laughter.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/su_ma_hs.png)
Story Update: Michael Anastasio on Grief, the Holidays, and the Healing Power of Laughter.
Nathan: Hello, welcome to this week’s Story Update. Today, we’re going to be speaking with Michael Anastasio who shared his story with us about four years ago. Before we spea...
![“Your Son Is Being Seen Around Town With Known Homosexuals.” Gay Life From The Sixties To Today.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MIchael_Anastasio_Headshot_WP_2.jpg)
“Your Son Is Being Seen Around Town With Known Homosexuals.” Gay Life From The Sixties To Today.
“What Was It Like? Stories by LGBTQ Elders” is a new program by I’m From Driftwood, in partnership with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, and SAGE, the count...
![IFD Live: A 4-year-old Boy’s Infatuation with Lynda Carter’s “Wonder Woman.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Peter-Domani.jpg)
IFD Live: A 4-year-old Boy’s Infatuation with Lynda Carter’s “Wonder Woman.”
I was four years old. And I had tasted pure, unadulterated joy. This was The Bronx in the early 80s. There was no cable. There were rabbit ears, and these rabbit ears on our incre...
![Satellite overhead image of Texas from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Texas.png)
I’m From Grand Saline, TX.
I strategically waited for my Dad, who has been sober for a year now, to finish three Keystone Light tall boys before I broke the news. The more relaxed he was, the better. He had...
![Satellite overhead image of Washington State from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Washington.png)
I’m From Olympia, Washington.
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...
![State Satellite overhead image from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Michigan.png)
I’m From Mattawan, MI.
When her first grandchild was born in the early 70s, my grandmother sent away to Bronner’s, Christmas kitsch capital of America, for a glass globe ornament with the baby’s nam...
![State Satellite overhead image from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/California.png)
I’m From San Francisco, CA.
When I started dating C, my junior year of college, I came out to my mother to tears and screaming. It took three years before Mom would allow my partner to come to Christmas. She...
![I’m From Birmingham, AL.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Alabama.png)
I’m From Birmingham, AL.
I grew up in Alabama – small towns, strong morals, Bible Belt Capital! I was (and am) extremely close to all of my family. I realized there was something “different” with me...