by Danny Terrero

My name is Danny Terrero and I’m from Bronx, New York. In 2012, I decided to begin my physical transition from female to male. I was very scared. I was in a very conservative sc...

by Erika Miguel

My name is Erika Miguel, and I’m from The Bronx, New York. From age 4 to age 18, I went to catholic school. Every morning at 6am I would put on a button-down, put on my tights, ...

by Celeste

I’m from The Bronx. When I was 8 or 9 years old I was really into this show called Pepper Ann. And it was this cartoon about this skinny red-head girl with glasses named Pepper ...

by Peter Domani

I was four years old. And I had tasted pure, unadulterated joy. This was The Bronx in the early 80s. There was no cable. There were rabbit ears, and these rabbit ears on our incre...

by Peter Domani

“Hey you, you in the leather jacket, what are you a faggot?” I was on my way to work in the North Bronx, when I heard a teenager yelling this at me from across the street. He ...

by Mari S.

When you’re a kid no says when I grow up I want to be a mom, especially a single lesbian mother of two. You see in my household homosexuality was not uncommon. I had 2 gay uncle...

by Hal Lanse

I am a survivor of Aesthetic Realism, one of the world’s first ex-gay cults. I grew up in the ‘70s the victim of lots of derision. I was constantly reminded by my family and s...

by Teri Yoshiuchi

One Saturday my mom and I went downtown to Scandinavia House to see a movie. My mom is a member there (she’s Swedish on her mother’s side, which makes me a quarter Swede) and ...