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![Hate Hits Home: How One Queer Couple’s Lives Were Upended By the 2016 Election.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/080923hs.png)
Hate Hits Home: How One Queer Couple’s Lives Were Upended By the 2016 Election.
My name is Jovier Sanchez and I’m from New York, New York. So I moved to Salem with my husband in 2015. We opened a candle store there and it was on the first floor of theI want to say within a week and a half to two, and it was that dramatic, the drop-off for the business that we were initially getting was almost… like, it was night and day. We ...
![Gay Activist Comes Out to Parents Before the Local News Does It for Him.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/083122hs.png)
Gay Activist Comes Out to Parents Before the Local News Does It for Him.
My name is Kris Banks and I’m from Alvin, Texas. So I was in law school, but I was also getting pretty heavily involved in local politics. I was starting to work with some oSo after just a couple days after that is when I went home and was kind of living my life. And just January… The January caucus meeting came. I think I was still in the slin...
![Financial Planner Finds Their Life Purpose – And Their Own Identity – In Helping Other Queer & Trans People](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/101321banner.png)
Financial Planner Finds Their Life Purpose – And Their Own Identity – In Helping Other Queer & Trans People
My name is River Nice and I am from Toms River, New Jersey. So in 2016, I was new to Philly and I was working at this tech startup. Part of what I liked about working at the tech ...
![Story Update: Katie Hinchey-Wise On Love, Elections And Empowering LGBTQ Families & Caregivers.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/su_khw_hs.png)
Story Update: Katie Hinchey-Wise On Love, Elections And Empowering LGBTQ Families & Caregivers.
Nathan: Welcome to this week’s Story Update. Today, we’re going to be speaking with Katie Hinchey-Wise who we spoke with about four years ago. But before we do, let’s take ...
![Election Results Prompt Queer Woman To Stop Living Fake Life. “Maybe I Could Have Changed Someone’s Vote.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ChrisLandtroopHeadshot.jpg)
Election Results Prompt Queer Woman To Stop Living Fake Life. “Maybe I Could Have Changed Someone’s Vote.”
I’m Chris Landtroop and I’m from Irving, Texas. When I was 18, I was in undergraduate school at Texas Tech in west Texas. There were lots of tumbleweeds and cowboys and not ga...
![How Ritchie Torres, Openly Gay Council Member From The Bronx, Came To Live a Life of “Radical Authenticity.”](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RitchieTorresHeadshot.jpg)
How Ritchie Torres, Openly Gay Council Member From The Bronx, Came To Live a Life of “Radical Authenticity.”
I’m Ritchie Torres. I’m from Bronx, New York. I remember the first time when I went to the Village and saw two men hold hands together, I was shocked because you would never i...
![I’m From Sedro-Woolley, WA – Video Story.](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/anastasia.jpg)
I’m From Sedro-Woolley, WA – Video Story.
Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can follow us on our adventure. If you haven’t submitted a story yet to IFD, or ifI’m Anastasia Polda, I’m from Sedro-Wooley, Washington but I live in Chicago now. But I’m teaching right now, and I’m watching – they were watching in class last week Pr...
![State Satellite overhead image from Google Earth 2022](https://imfromdriftwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/California.png)
I’m From San Diego, CA.
So here’s one from your straight ally, a married mother of two in Southern California. It was two days before the Obama/Prop 8 election in Nov 2008. I had reminded my kids (11 a...