by Brandon Cooper

I cried when I saw the movie Prayers for Bobby. I felt so much like Bobby, and because I was almost at that breaking point, I tried to get my parents to watch it, but they wouldn...

by Joseph Ferreira

It took my mother’s diagnosis and death from a glioblastoma brain tumor in 2004 to finally make me realize that going through life closeted was no option at all. I’d known I w...

by Zach Sewell

My voice was unsettled, nervous, and faltering as I began to tell my parents that their son of 18 years did not like girls. That moment of sheer terror is imprinted on the very fa...

by Andre Woodard

I’m only 16 years old today, but I tried to come out to my parents when I was barely 14. I had a boyfriend at the time who I was crazy about. My mom took up my phone because I w...

by Graeme Scott

Mine is not a happy one. My story starts when I was about 10. My family and I lived about an hour out from Melbourne in the relatively new suburb of Bayswater (well it was back in...

by Allen S.

I came out at 27 in 2009. I feel like such a loser saying that. I have a lot of younger friends who came out in middle school, in high school, college… but I really didn’t fig...

by Ed Whalan

I grew up the youngest of five kids in a very liberal Catholic family. By the time I was in my mid teens my parents had separated and were in the process of starting new relations...

by Christopher Oeser

My mother used to tell me to eat my vegetables, go to church and tie my shoes. Now that all seems a distant but unique perspective. My name is Chris Oeser and I am 30 years old an...

by Douglas Calhoun

If you’re 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, Contin...