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Crossdresser Finds Support And Connection In South Carolina LGBTQ Community.
My name is Savannah Hauk and I’m from Garden City, Michigan. In my early twenties, I moved to New York and found Savannah. That was when, you know, the glitz and glamour of, lik...
Queer Woman Comes Out At 47 To Little Fanfare. “I’m Just Who I Am. And Now I Have A Girlfriend.”
My name’s Elizabeth Green and I’m from Austin, Texas. About 3 years ago, I was married to a man that I’d been married to for 18 years. We’d been together for about 20 and ...
From Homeless to Hopeful: How One Weekend On Fire Island Changed Gay Teen’s Life.
Hi, I’m Scott Riedel. I’m from Ironton, Ohio. It’s a small town in southern Ohio. I moved to New York about twenty-five years ago and met my partner Gil. Gil was born and ra...
Unable To Live Openly In Foster Care, Gay Man Finds Family In His Fraternity.
My name is John Paul Horn and I’m from Bakersfield, California. I grew up in foster care from the age of 8 to 18. When I was in eighth grade, I remember the director of the grou...
From Chaos To Community: Women-Only Campground Helps Lesbian Turn Her Life Around.
My name is Judith Fitzgerald and I’m from Timberville, Virginia. I remember times that I wished my father wouldn’t come home because of the chaos that I grew up in. There was ...
After Online Harassment, Gay Student Finds Community He Didn’t Know Existed.
I’m Eric Schroekenthaler and I’m from Plover, Wisconsin. The summer before my senior year of high school, I had come out and early in my senior year of high school, an acquain...
“The Brown Skin That I Am In”: Gay Filipino-American Finds Empowerment In Diversity.
Hi, my name is Christian Tanja and I’m from Bakersfield, California. A few years ago, when I was in college, I was sitting down at a restaurant with my then-boyfriend at the tim...
Gay Man’s Journey To Acceptance: “I’m Muslim. I’m Gay. And I’m Totally Okay With That.”
My name is Tolga and I’m from Malatya, Turkey. It’s a small, conservative town and we are all raised conservative as well. I remember every time I was going to school, some of...
Pre-AIDS Greenwich Village: A Time Of “Free Love, Open Sex And Tolerance.”
“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 count1967: “From That Moment On, I Never Had One Moment Of Guilt About Being Gay.” The year was 1967. The war in Vietnam was raging. I just graduated from college and I was lucky 1970 Greenwich Village: “I Felt Like I Had Really Found Heaven.” In 1970, after a long stint in the Peace Corps and traveling back through many, many countries, I arrived bacPre-AIDS Greenwich Village: A Time Of “Free Love, Open Sex And Tolerance.” I feel very fortunate to have lived in Greenwich Village in the 70s, pre-AIDS. t was a wonderful t9th Grade English Teacher Rescues Former Student From Sexual Mishap. In the 1980s, I was teaching in New Jersey, commuting out from Grove Street, from Greenwich Village, and I ha1985: Rock Hudson’s Death Hurls AIDS Into Public Consciousness. In the early 80s, it was still a wonderful time because it seemed like everybody was curious about gay life. Peo“It’s Just Incredible To Think Of What We Lost [To AIDS].” The late 80s and early 90s was a sad time for many gay men. There was, there were a lot of people dying. I lost mLife After Fifty As A Gay Man. Life after 50 as a gay man. Well… you know, I have always been lucky in meeting people on the street. Whether I had my dogs or a grocery bag or a...
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