by Kenny O.

I was born gay, of course, and went through hell all the way through school. I was called faggot, queer, and homo all through life. I came out to my parents when I was 17. My mom ...

by Jake Wolfe

I came out to my friend I believe on the 16th of February. The weekend before, just hanging at his house I said, “If I told you something, would you promise to keep it a secret?...

by Michael Stratmoen

My story isn’t one where I faced friends or family over my sexual orientation. It isn’t about discrimination or gay bashing. It’s about something far scarier and insidious. ...

by Mark David Gerson

It’s December 14 and I’m at the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus’s “Come Out for Christmas” concert with my friend Kathleen. It’s our second year attending this event tog...

by Deryck Todd

I came out in the early 2000’s, though even now dating can be a bit of a slippery slope especially in the Big Apple. But I’ve learned it’s about having fun. Fortunately I ha...

by A.Y.M. Kong

“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” Winston Churchill. Yeah, I know it’s a poncy public schoolboy thing to do to quote Winston Churchill, but it ...

by Jeremy Smith

FEATURED ARTIST – Frank-Joseph Frelier STORY by Jeremy Smith I was in 10th grade then. The sort of sissy kid that all the kids had made fun of in middle school had given way to ...

by Phil

To give a little context…the year was 1975, I was 21 years old and had been married less than a year. It was four years before I would come across an article in the Chicago Trib...

by Saeed Jones

I finally came out to my mom my freshman year of college and that did make me really nervous because you’re like “I think she would be cool but what if she isn’t?” If she ...