1950s: Experience During Naptime: “It Was An Inkling Of A Difference.” So being a native New Yorker, I started my early childhood education on the Lower East Side. I was four and a half, five year old. Started nursery school. I remember – very vividly remember one day at night …
My name is June. I’m from Houston, Texas. At the beginning of 2018, I was in a relationship. It was a longer term relationship than I had ever been in. And he and I learned a lot of things together. And he and I were in an open relationship. I’d …
1970: Gay 10-Year-Old Boy Finds Creative Way To Convince Mom To Buy Teen Magazines Well, I grew up in a small town called Randolph, Massachusetts, which is about 15 miles south of Boston. Probably October of 1970, I was 10 years old and it was a Friday and on Fridays, …
My name is Stephanie Overbeck. I am from Roseland, New Jersey. The year is 2013. It’s mid-February. I wake up at 7:00 AM in my ex’s place in Jersey City and I have to make it to a 9:30 AM logic lecture at NYU. So I have two and a …
My name is Joe Ferreira and I’m from Folsom, California. When I was in college, I did come out to my parents. But then after that, I lost all momentum. I never really came out to my younger brother. I never came out to my extended family at all. And …
My name is Ilo and I’m from Caracas, Venezuela. When I was – it was 10 years ago, or something like that, I was in Venezuela. I used to practice medicine there. At the time, I started dating this girl who is originally from New York City. And it was …
I’m Dorian Woodruff. I’m from New York City. When I was a freshman in college at a Baptist university, where there were lots of rules – there was “don’t do this, don’t do that.” You had to walk this way, talk this way. We had to go to chapel every …
I’m E Garcia and I’m from New York City. When I was a kid, I was a huge tomboy. I remember when I was 5, I asked my parents if I could get a mohawk and dye it pink, purple and green for some reason. Of course, they said no. …
My name is Marti Cummings. I’m from Kennedyville, Maryland. Drag happened very organically for me. I was doing a show off-Broadway called “Twist” and I played this androgynous, gender-bending, gender non-conformist character and I just, I really fell in love with the costumes. I felt I was able to express …
My name is Lawrence Gullo. I am from New York, New York. So I had just graduated university and I came back to New York, having done a little bit of cabaret theater, but really wanting to get into burlesque. I had a burlesque gig in New York for a …
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