Dad and Me
STORY: I grew up in a close-knit and loving family of four in Minnesota. As a child, I was always close to my mom but didn’t really know...
- Jan 1, 2021
- 8 min
How Did I End Up Here?
STORY: “How did I get to this point?” I kept asking myself nervously and guiltily, during the two-hour train ride. I’m a father,...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 5 min
Speedy and Bam
STORY: When I was in graduate school in Boston in the mid-1970s, my attraction to other guys was proving intractable and I feared it...
- Jul 11, 2020
- 4 min
Catharsis
STORY: In the mid-nineties, I was a naive 21 y.o. young man, full of fear about my budding homosexual orientation. Coming out was not an...
- May 3, 2020
- 3 min
Self-Acceptance and a Queer Life in India
STORY: My name is Rahul. I was born in a small town in Tripura state in North-Eastern India where I spent my first 18 years. My earliest...
- Aug 4, 2019
- 1 min
BAMMER and Me: Caleb Holland, Coming Out (Part 2)
PODCAST—EPISODE 4: Our first episode is about cross-generational perspectives on LGBTQ issues and themes between Mike Balaban and 25 y.o....
- Jun 25, 2019
- 3 min
In Living Color
I was 14 years old in the long-ago summer of 1969. My freshman year of high school approached but my concerns were still very boyish:...
- Feb 9, 2019
- 4 min
Soothsayer
STORY: “Ya know, I can see it all. You and that girly little voice…You’re gonna’ grow up to be a faggot.” I was 12, on the verge of 13,...
- Jan 4, 2019
- 4 min
The Ins and Outs of Dating
STORY: August 2012 - September 8, 2013—For a lot of closeted gay men, the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps offer an excellent...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 4 min
Coming of Age
STORY: Life was good for a 19-year old kid. I was a Division 1 athlete, attending the same top-tier university as my grandfather and...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
Making My Grandmother Cry
STORY: I make my grandmother cry. I come out to her and her fists close and her eyes fill up. She is silent for the longest moment and...
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
Luis
NOTE: Viktor Carrasquero, a young Venezuelan emigre in Hong Kong, authorized us to share the following story from his early life. Back in...
- May 19, 2018
- 4 min
Brotherly Love
STORY: 1976-1979—I moved to NYC for a position in a bank training program in October 1976 and almost immediately befriended another...
- Apr 4, 2018
- 6 min
My David Kopay Story
STORY: I was raised in the arch-conservative Florida panhandle near the Alabama border in the late 1950s and 1960s. In those days, and...