by Farsh A.

My weekend in Vermont changed everything. I knew heading to a mountain cabin with twenty-four guys would yield inevitable fun and lasting memories, but I didn’t anticipate the s...

by Radu Bradu

I woke up one day realizing that I was different from other kids. I didn’t know exactly how at first, but soon it became pretty clear. I still remember seeing a gay pride parade...

by Taylor Parr

I’ve known I was gay since I was 7 years old when I could look at guys and think they were cute. I think I could have been bisexual, but girls have scared me ever since being ra...

by Mariette Joseph

I recently moved into my very first apartment. I am 25 years old. I have lived with little sister and my overly spiritual mother for the past five years. My mother knows that I am...

by Bradley McDermitt

I wake up to the sound of the ocean coming through the closed window. This house is so close to the water that it doesn’t matter whether the window is opened or closed. The soot...

by Benjamin Golden

In the small eastern Pennsylvania town where I grew up, homophobic bullying was like the noisy freight trains that thundered daily along the tracks at the edge of town:  just par...

by Jerry Langdon

Back in the day, the Religious Wrong exclaimed that “joining the Gay Lifestyle” would shorten our lives, cause depression and lead to alcoholism and suicide. Our lives were de...

by Daniel Harder

I’m from Bowie, MD. From the time I was 4 or 5 years old, I knew that I was gay. I can even remember my first crush at that age. I don’t know if I had a true understanding of what being “gay” m...

by Amber Hikes

I’m from Atlanta, GA. My name is Amber and I was born in Okinawa, Japan, but I am from Atlanta, Georgia. So my experience is that people of color, when I hear their comin...