by Frank-Joseph Frelier

I look forward to fall. When I think of fall, I think of you and the lavish seasonal dishes we whipped up together. I felt like French royalty enjoying the most tender fowl, heart...

by Ashley Evans

I was in the car dealership with my mom when I was about 7 so she put me in the little kids area. I was bored for a while and then she came in. I don’t know her name. I barely r...

by Anthony S.

FEATURED ARTIST – Frank-Joseph Frelier STORY by Anthony S. Recently I have been rather reflective about the past 4 years to the point where I sat in a cornfield by myself for 3...

by Hubert Dorsett

I should never have made it, according to the doctors who treated me so many years ago for third degree burns on my back and buttocks after I was run over by a car at the age of 5...

I went to an all-girls high school. I hope I don’t have to explain that the school wasn’t the making of my sexuality, but perhaps it helped to be in an environment where girls...

by Ambrose V.

“Are you gay?” “I am.” “That’s so cool!” So went my most recent “coming out” conversation, with one of the students in my advisory class at the high school where...

by Tim Hare and Earl Ball

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, Continue Reading. ...

by Tom

I was born in the 1950’s when Fishkill was a very quiet village of no more than a few hundred people. It was a beautiful place to grow up and I often wandered into the woods aro...

by Adam Conway

We’d “met” via the “Honesty Box” application on Facebook; that probably should have been my first sign. I was just barely out to myself and still very disoriented, but H...