by Bear Justice

I’m From Pikeville, KY.

Where to begin… I was raised in a very religious family (Old Regular Baptist), where my grandfather was a preacher. From an early age I was told that any deviation from what was...

by Ian Bloomquist

I’m From Willmar, MN.

Around my eighteenth birthday in October ’08, a very dear friend of mine, Morgan, was killed by a drunk driver. She was so much inspiration to me, and claiming to be bisexual, w...

by Johan Baumeister

I’m From Oakdale, MN.

My mother’s first words to me after I told her and my father, were something along the lines of, “I thought we raised you better than that.” Then my father fetched his Bible...

by Josh B.

I’m From East Brunswick, NJ.

So as part of the “peer mentoring” program at my town’s reformed Jewish temple-cum-Hebrew school, I was leading a class discussion about marrying outside the faith. I was a ...

by Steven Pool

I’m From Mullan, ID.

Knowing my father had already gone through one son coming out of the closet should have put me at ease but it didn’t; if anything it made me more nervous. I knew the day that I ...

by Whittier Strong

I’m From Bloomington, IN.

This is hard for me to write.  I risk incriminating people with whom I am making peace.  I now recognize that they, as well as I, were operating out of ignorance.  Yet I must t...

by Peter Yacobellis

I’m From New Hyde Park, NY.

In December of 1998 I was discharged from the United States Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas; under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” poli...

by Chase L.

I’m From Singapore.

Coming out to her was easy. But for her to accept who I am, was not. The first time I met her, I couldn’t recognize her as one of my classmates in school. She just waved at me w...

by Daniell

I’m From Stellenbosch, South Africa.

I am a 28-year-old gay guy. I am a Christian and was raised in a smaller city near Cape Town, South Africa. My parents divorced when I was 2-and-a-half years old. In all the case ...