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I’m From Kansas. I came out to my family and close friends around the beginning of January 2011. Although my mom is a lesbian, I still found it difficult to come clean with her. I suppose a lot of that fear was the idea that she would blame herself for my sexuality?

I’m From New Haven, Connecticut – Video Story. I’m Kelly Washburn and I grew up in Connecticut, and I’ve been living in San Francisco for four years, and now I’m back in Connecticut and I’m going to school to become and adult and geriatric nurse practitioner. Anytime I went to a health care provider it was just assumed I was straight…

I’m From Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When I was thirteen a friend of mine was working in a corner store where, unknown to the owner, was clipping out photographs from Playboy and Penthouse. My friend had hit puberty, and so had I. One day, when we were alone, he dragged me into the washroom…

I’m From Glenwood, Utah – Video Story. My name’s Ryan Oldroyd, I’m from Glenwood, Utah. You probably know a lot of guys in Utah go on missions, and I went on one when I was nineteen. They typical go from nineteen to twenty-one. And I went to Lithuania, the Baltic states. And I was there about a year when I met another missionary…

I’m From Factoryville, Pennsylvania. I didn’t come out to my family until I was 26. I struggled for years with being gay, and even had a girlfriend until the fall of my senior year of college. After we broke up, we tried to remain friends, and even lived together for a year after moving to Washington, DC and starting our first “real” jobs.





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