by Amber Hikes

I’m from Atlanta, GA. My name is Amber and I was born in Okinawa, Japan, but I am from Atlanta, Georgia. So my experience is that people of color, when I hear their comin...

by Dix

My name is Dix and I’m from New Orleans. This is where I grew up. I have a daughter who is – it’s almost criminal to call her seventeen because she’s going to be eighteen ...

by Jennie Brier and Kat Hindmand

Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can follow us on our adventure. If you haven’t submitted a story yet to IFD, or ifI’m Jennie Brier, I live in Chicago, Illinois and I’m from New York City. I’m Kat Hindman and I’m an Army brat, but when I was twenty I moved to New York City and I lived ...

by Dwayne Jenkins

Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. We met Dwayne in Nashville; he does amazing work with many organizations, one in particular being Nashvile CARES, Hi, I’m Dwayne Jenkins, originally from New York but now residing in Nashville, Tennessee. As a young person who had a child at a very young age, not biological, but sort of a s...

by Brian Tessier

There are only two things I ever wanted to be in this life, a husband and a father. Now, imagine watching men run for the next county when you tell them. To shorten a very long st...

by Gay Lynn Costa and Kyle MceLwain

NOTE: We collected the following two stories in Salt Lake City on the 50-state Story Tour. Gay Lynn Costa and her son, Kyle McElwain, hosted us while we were in SLC and were qu  I’M FROM CHOCTAW, OK. By Gay Lynn Costa When my son, Kyle, was fourteen years old, I asked him point-blank if he was gay. He admitted to me tearfully that he was. We hugg...

by Lana Fox

I am Lana Fox and I’m from Madison, Wisconsin. My partner and I had been together for just short of nine years when we decided to have kids and I had wanted to have kids way bef...

by Arturo Beeche

With much anticipation they went on their first date eight years ago, just as millions of couples do when they are searching for a spouse, a companion, a friend. During their date...

by C.S.

“You and Aba are gay,” my son said to me. We were in the car, on the way to school. “Yes, we are,” I said. “I think I want to be gay.” “Well, you’ve got plenty of ...