by Cathy Marino-Thomas

1970s: Meeting First Girlfriend And Discovering Lesbianism. “She Really Helped Me Start On That Road.” When I was about 17, so that’s in the seventies, I had this friend Je1994: Lesbian Goes From Laughing at the Idea of Same-Sex Marriage to Becoming President of Marriage Equality USA. So it’s maybe 1994. I’ve been living with Sheila, this woman Late 1990s: Lesbian Couple Faces Multiple Challenges In Having a Child. “The Most Joyful Things In Life Are Really Hard To Obtain.” So Sheila, my wife, and I were married a co2006: Children’s Sleepover Conversation About Family Diversity Surprises Mom: “It Was Beautiful And Amazing.” Right so, I guess it was maybe 2006. My daughter was a first gr 2008: Marriage Equality Activist Faces Down Opponent–And Wins. I have doing marriage equality work for a little while. I was Board President, I was speaking. Maybe it was 2008 ...

by Richard Fox

My name is Richard Fox and I’m from Queens, New York. I, in my adolescence, had gained some weight as a kid, say from my second grade to high school I basically progressively be...

by George Ashiotis

I’m George Ashiotis and I grew up in Astoria Queens. Around the age of five, I was playing ball in the park with my father and my sister. I remember there was a blue ball that w...

by Khary

I’m from Queens, NY. 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 commTRANSCRIPT: My name is Khary, I’m from Queens, New York. My story is really about what it means to be gay and come out as a black gay guy and really how friendship plays into th...

by Rick Landman

NOTE: This story was originally published on the author’s, Rick Landman’s, website, InfoTrue.com. The story is well beyond the 1500 word limit but I think it’s an intimate ...

by Damien Butvick and Rafi Mittlefehldt

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, Continue Reading. ...

by Damien Butvick

My boyfriend and I were just finishing our first full day of our week-long vacation in Maine. I had been there since Friday evening for a weekend with friends; he arrived Sunday n...

by Damien Butvick

I was so nervous as I dialed my parents’ number that I could hear my own pulse. Part of my hesitance to tell them lay in the fact that my father had a heart attack in May of the...