by Sulaiman

I was born in Dohuk, which is in northern Iraq, and when I was 4 years old Saddam Husein destroyed our villages and killed many people, so my family escaped to Iran, and I grew up...

by Zachary Clark

I glowered at Bobby all through lunch. “Stop looking at me like that,” he said. So I looked at my harmless sandwich. “Are you going to be silent this whole time?” I took a...

by Carl Reddish

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 Jon D.

Junior year of high school: Since things were getting dicey using the family computer to satisfy my curiosity, and having no computer of my own, I decided to print out some gay re...

by Jesus Reyes

I was raised in a strict Catholic home. My mother is an ex-Catholic nun. Growing up I knew I was different. I was raised with Bibles, rosaries, religious statues, the works. Growi...

I want to join a conservative Christian Church which promotes abstinence and prayer as a solution to homosexuality. However, I do so with a degree of guilt [my motivations are sus...

by Gerhard M

I grew up knowing I was different, but also realizing that I needed to conform. To religious attitudes, to what my family wanted, to what I realized was the “norm.” I was very...

by Jordan

I was raised in the burbs of Minneapolis, MN. I knew I was “gay” (we didn’t have that word back in the early 60s), when I was 8-10 years old. Feeling different than the othe...

by Jim S.

It is kind of funny how someone can be so blind to things that others find so obvious. I went to a Catholic seminary in the 1980’s. In my mind, the only way I could be gay and C...