STORY: The evening was warm and moonless. The only light was the odd firefly bobbing about as we three slipped into the cool waters of...

BAMMER47: The first time I had sex with a guy happened after, with much trepidation, I answered a personal ad in the After Dark section...

STORY: I began having sex on a regular basis when I was really young. In fact, the first time it happened, I was only eleven. The school...

STORY: We five were an unusual gang—“the famous five”—as we liked to call ourselves. It was comprised of me, my best friend Mark, his...

STORY: Like most young men in America, I had gone my entire life believing I was meant to be with a woman. I had some satisfying sexual...

STORY: 1980—I started going to Fire Island in the summer of 1980. My first time, I was invited by friends who’d rented a house on the...

STORY: August 1972 - I chose this photo for a reason. It was taken one month after, at 20 years of age, I’d had my first sexual...

STORY: 1976-1979—I moved to NYC for a position in a bank training program in October 1976 and almost immediately befriended another...