by Eric Pitsenbarger

I remember walking home from Scott’s little house in the bright early morning feeling triumphant, jubilant! Finally I knew! I knew and was ecstatic! In my seventeen years of dou...

by Mathias Oliver

I’m Ronny Oliver. I’m Mathias Oliver. I’m Reagan Oliver and we are the Oliver family from Spokane, Washington. (Mathias) Yes! (Reagan) We’ve been working really hard on he...

by Lewis

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 ifMy name is Lewis, I’m from Wasilla. Lived here, pretty much all my life. In middle school, the time period I was going there – the word “fag” was starting to hit schools a...

by Austin Yu

Over 15 years ago, I came out to my parents while in high school. Specifically, to my mom after a heated argument about whether or not I can go play miniature golf with a few frie...

by Jeffrey Daniels and Jonathan Bass

We met Jeffrey and Jon on the Story Tour  just a few days before Jeffrey’s grandmother, who’s mentioned in the story, came to visit. As they explain in the video, Indian cultJeffrey writes: The long and short of it is, Jon came with me to our family dinner (kids and spouses) with Dadi (Grandma). Jon was clearly my companion at dinner. Not much was saiI’m Jonathan Bass, and I’m from Salt Lake. I’m Jeffrey Daniels and I’m from Carlsbad, New Mexico. (Jeffrey) We met actually, probably around 2005. Actually January of 2005...

by Kurt Hoffmann

I didn’t come out to my family until I was 26. I struggled for years with being gay, and even had a girlfriend until the fall of my senior year of college. After we broke up, we...

by Dave

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 Dave. And I’m from Oahu, Hawaii. When I came out to my parents my mother’s reaction was that – to deny it. That I wasn’t gay. And so I thought I might have to prove ...

by Annise Parker

Transcript: My name is Annise Parker and I am the Mayor of Houston Texas. I knew that I was gay, began putting a name to it when I was twelve, didn’t come out until I was fiftee...

by R.S.

My story is not all that unique. You’ve probably heard it a thousand times before but it is one that has shaped me in many ways and made me who I am today. I was 16 years old an...