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    Dad and Me
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
    How Did I End Up Here?
    • Jan 2, 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,...
    Speedy and Bam
    • Sep 3, 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...
    Catharsis
    • Jul 12, 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...
    Self-Acceptance and a Queer Life in India
    • May 4, 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...
    BAMMER and Me: Caleb Holland, Coming Out (Part 2)
    • Aug 5, 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....
    In Living Color
    • Jun 26, 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:...
    Soothsayer
    • Feb 10, 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,...
    The Ins and Outs of Dating
    • Jan 5, 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...
    Making My Grandmother Cry
    • Jun 10, 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...
    Coming of Age
    • Jun 10, 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...
    Luis
    • Jun 8, 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...
    Brotherly Love
    • May 20, 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...
    My David Kopay Story
    • Apr 5, 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...

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