by Jennifer Tullock

If you’re interested in being in a Video Story, just let me know and we’ll set up a time and place to meet. Watch all the IFD Video Stories here. For the transcript, Contin...

by Lisa M.

My first kiss did not happen at fourteen outside a closed library on a dry and dreamy November afternoon. If I’ve ever told you that, it was a dreadful lie. It happened, rather,...

by Sarah A.

“Do you date girls?” she said with a carefully casual tone. And then my brain exploded. My mother is a master of denial, you see. She can explain away anything, unmatched in h...

by Kate W.

I came out once before I came out. My first coming out was in a beautiful white dress. I was paraded across a stage hanging on the right arm of a man in a tuxedo. A perfect symbol...

by Lauren Gulbrandsen

I’m Lauren Gulbrandsen and I’m from Brooklyn, New York, originally. I never really felt like being gay was so political until I went to the Archives — the Lesbian HerStory ...

by Rae M.

I remember liking a girl in elementary school. It’s strange to think that even then, something in me knew. I remember the first girl I really had a crush on. It was sixth grade,...

The letter you’ll never read– Of all the classrooms in all the colleges in all the world, you had to walk into mine. I remember with perfect clarity the way you walked in. You...

by Purple Passion

In 1998 I was living in a small town that was about two hours from Louisville. I realized that I probably would never meet another lesbian in this town so I turned to online datin...

by Kate W.

When I started dating C, my junior year of college, I came out to my mother to tears and screaming. It took three years before Mom would allow my partner to come to Christmas. She...