by Anastasia Polda

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 Anastasia Polda, I’m from Sedro-Wooley, Washington but I live in Chicago now. But I’m teaching right now, and I’m watching – they were watching in class last week Pr...

by Jim Gray

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 Jim Gray and I am originally from a small town in southern Kentucky called Glasgow. I had run for Mayor of Lexington in 2002 and didn’t succeed in that race, was narrowly ...

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 David Cicilline

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 if I’m David Cicilline from Providence, Rhode Island and before I ran for Mayor I had contemplated running for Congress and there was a reporter for a local newspaper who was doing...

by Jeremy Craig

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 Jeremy Craig and I’m from Mayflower, Arkansas. I really just sort of grew up in a bubble not knowing gay people. And then when I came out in college I became a slut. And f...

by Scott Hines

My name is Scott Hines, and I’m a city councilman in the city of Rancho Mirage, California. My family and I moved to Southern California about four years ago. We were living in ...

by Zack Petrick

Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can follow us on our adventure. We met Zack Petrick in Grand Forks, North Dakota.I’m Zack Patrick. I am from Grand Forks, North Dakota. And right before my 21st birthday North Dakota was going through Senate Bill 2278 which would have banned discrimination i...

by Harold Wells

Today’s Video Story was collected on the 50-state Story Tour. Check out the blog where you can follow us on our adventure, including our stay in Des Moines. If you haven’t My name is Harold Wells. I’m from Des Moines, Iowa. I was politically very involved, nationally. And was one of the six founders of Lesbian Gay Democrats. President Carter was s...

by Allen Roskoff

Allen Roskoff, New York. In the early 70s you have to bear in mind that there was nobody who was open. Any time homosexuals appeared on TV they had their faces digitized out or th...