Results for "Philadelphia"

Black Community Spotlight: Tyrone Smith

by Tyrone Smith

Black Community Spotlight: Tyrone Smith

I’m from Kinston, NC. To reinforce the sometimes overlooked fact that there are black people in the LGBTQ community, and also that there are LGBTQ people in the black comTRANSCRIPT: My name is Tyrone Smith, I’m originally from Kinston, North Carolina but I’ve lived here in Philadelphia for most of my adult life. And I’m an openly, affirming ...

I’m From Philadelphia, MS.

by Will McKee

I’m From Philadelphia, MS.

I remember being jealous of my sisters because they could do back flips and fancy dives. I was doing good to jump off the board and swim to the edge of the pool. So I devised a st...

Satellite overhead image of Pennsylvania from Google Earth 2022

by Howard Nields

I’m From Philadelphia, PA.

I guess I must first preface this tale with a revelation. I am a gay man living with HIV. I have been this way since October 23, 2007. I don’t blame anyone but myself for my “...

Satellite overhead image of New York State from Google Earth 2022

by Alejandro Morales

I’m From Ellenville, NY.

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...

Satellite overhead image of Pennsylvania from Google Earth 2022

by Howard Nields

I’m From Philadelphia, PA.

Where to begin….Having just turned 40 last week, it makes one look back at the years and reminisce about things. Was it really 10 years ago that I turned 30 and got dumped? Wher...

Satellite overhead image of Pennsylvania from Google Earth 2022

by Ralph Alpha

I’m From Philadelphia, PA.

It’s been eight years since the blizzard–that random act of nature that brought us together. I can still remember that night we were all stranded in the city, and how miraculo...

Satellite overhead image of Pennsylvania from Google Earth 2022

by Sebastian Fortino

I’m From Philadelphia, PA.

We moved to Philadelphia when I was about ten years old. The boyhood friends I had in the New Jersey suburb of my birth were therefore lost to me. Despite promises to write, and t...

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