by Peter Yacobellis

In December of 1998 I was discharged from the United States Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas; under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” poli...

by Kevin Chen

Gay rights weren’t important to me in high school. “What else could I ask for?” I thought. It’s not like I was getting beat up for it. I was young, with more important pri...

by Alejandro Morales

In 1999 I graduated high school and in the fall I moved from my mom’s house in the Hudson Valley to a tenement building in New York City’s Upper West Side, to study musical th...

by Donal Mosher

NOTE: The author of this story, Donal Mosher, is the co-director and co-producer of the film October Country. The documentary, created with his partner Michael Palmieri, gives an...

by Teri Yoshiuchi

One Saturday my mom and I went downtown to Scandinavia House to see a movie. My mom is a member there (she’s Swedish on her mother’s side, which makes me a quarter Swede) and ...

by Will McGinn

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 Kyle

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 Ari Warshawsky

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 Rick Landman

NOTE: This story was originally published on the author’s, Rick Landman’s, website, InfoTrue.com. The story is well beyond the 1500 word limit but I think it’s an intimate ...