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![High School Bully Instills Confidence In Gay Classmate. “Remind Yourself of the Truth.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/090821banner.png)
High School Bully Instills Confidence In Gay Classmate. “Remind Yourself of the Truth.”
Hi, my name is Remy Wilbanks. I am from Chicago, Illinois. My story kind of starts out with my mom falling down a flight of stairs, aand she had me prematurely at one pound, five ...
![Gay Man Finds Confidence And Sheds His Toxic Masculinity On The Theater Stage. “For Once, You’re Seeing The Real Me.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/051320HS.jpg)
Gay Man Finds Confidence And Sheds His Toxic Masculinity On The Theater Stage. “For Once, You’re Seeing The Real Me.”
My name is Jack. I’m from Chicago, Illinois. So I came out of the closet when I was about 15 years old. I come from a very masculine, sportsy middle class suburban background, a...
![Gay Puerto Rican Learns To Embrace Both His Sexuality And His Ethnicity. “I Feel More Balanced.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/042920HS.jpg)
Gay Puerto Rican Learns To Embrace Both His Sexuality And His Ethnicity. “I Feel More Balanced.”
My name is William Perez and I’m from Brooklyn, New York. I went to Cornell University in 1987. I struggled my first semester so much that I had straight Fs and one D. So I was ...
![Gay Lawyer Embraces His Identity In The Workplace And Thrives.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/0605HS.jpg)
Gay Lawyer Embraces His Identity In The Workplace And Thrives.
I’m Patrick Opdyke and I’m from New York, New York. I went to college at Georgetown in Washington, DC. So at the time that I joined the rugby team, I was out but I wasn’t ne...
![Bisexual Man Embraces Sexual Fluidity.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BenGibsonHeadshot2.1.jpg)
Bisexual Man Embraces Sexual Fluidity.
My name is Ben Gibson and I’m from Andrews, Texas. I found love when I was 16 with a girl I met in high school. And it was probably one of the best times of my entire life. We r...
![Overcoming Internalized Homophobia: “My Sexuality Is Something To Be Celebrated.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/050918.jpg)
Overcoming Internalized Homophobia: “My Sexuality Is Something To Be Celebrated.”
I’m from Montgomery, Alabama. I always was an effeminate child and I think – I guess I knew that on some level. One day, I was 8 years old. It was bright and sunny and hot, al...
![Gay Man Overcomes Insecurities And Finds Confidence In The Gay Scene.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/VincentScarfoHeadshot.jpg)
Gay Man Overcomes Insecurities And Finds Confidence In The Gay Scene.
I’m Vincent Scarfo and I’m from Flanders, New Jersey. Growing up, I was bullied for not only being gay but also for being fat. A lot of the bullying around being gay was also ...
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I’m From The Bronx, NY.
“Hey you, you in the leather jacket, what are you a faggot?” I was on my way to work in the North Bronx, when I heard a teenager yelling this at me from across the street. He ...