by Karine

My name is Karine. I’m from Brooklyn, New York.  I grew up in a very conservative… conservative environment in Haiti. We went to church every week, sometimes twice a weekAnd I had just this moment of understanding that I could actually be in love with a woman, and I could be with a woman. Even though I’d had those feelings before, when I was...

by Tirrell Cherry

I’m Tirrell and I’m from Atlanta, Georgia. Before moving to Georgia, I lived in Hawaii until I was 15. Growing up in Hawaii, it was different, it was a bit isolated, I didn’...

by Emily Borges

Feeling alive, feeling free. Growing up in Fall River was partially easy at times. Certain times were harder. By harder I mean listening to people say constantly, “That bitch sh...

by Jason

When Jason was 14 years old, he was a foreign exchange student in Ecuador. After befriending a native, they quickly developed a bond with each other. Before long, that bond lead ty name is Jason, I’m originally from  Burlington, Wisconson and I live in Louisville, Kentucky now. When I was 14 I was a foreign exchange student. I went to South America, to ...

by Michael Pomante

I was 18 years old in 1998 and at that time, the only way to meet someone if you didn’t have a car and couldn’t get to Woody’s on a Wednesday was via an AOL chat room. So, t...

by Siobhan Fitzpatrick

I consider myself a female-assigned genderqueer pansexual. Though I am open to dating a person of any gender or gender variant, I’ve only had experience with cismen and ciswomen...

by Eric C.

I had recently told my best friend Allie that I was gay. I was in high spirits for telling the first person ever who I really was. However, I wanted to meet a gay person, you know...

by Laurence W.

I was about 5’5”, fifteen years old and I wore my heart on my sleeve. It was about October time, so the leaves were all on the ground and it was dry and cold. We, my friends a...

by Alex G.

My first kiss wasn’t on my fifteenth birthday. It wasn’t with my girlfriend in my bed. It was on the last day of Reading Buddies in second grade. I was partnered with a first ...