We give a damn

I give a damn because it took me my entire life until now to have the courage to be fully out. Fully out means no fudging if someone asks me if I’m lesbian. It’s …

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I’ll be 65 in a couple of days. I’m back in college working on a Master’s Degree. It just happens to be a Christian college. The saving fact about the college…

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I am a 53 year old transgender woman, and have lived as a woman since the age of sixteen. I’ve experienced just about every type of discrimination possible. When I …

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I am seventy-one years old. I am female and I grew up in a very small town in Appalachia. My parents gave me to an aunt and uncle when I was three years old. I grew up in poverty,…

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Close to three decades ago I went to live with my father to West Hollywood, California. There I learned that my father was openly gay and that the grand majority of his friends…

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I have transitioned from town to town all my life. Both as a child and now as an adult.

I transitioned from single to married life. Then I transitioned from being ‘just’…

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My brother is now in his late 50’s and is finally out. He lived a tough life of denial. A failed straight marriage. Many wrong employment turns. He was even homeless…

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I am in my 60s and knew I was “different” since I was a small child. I tried to follow the expected path for someone growing with typical Midwestern values –…

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My father has hid for most of his life in the closet. It was not until I was 16 when he finally came out. The divorce was horrible for me because I got harassed at school about …

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Hey, I wanted to share my story just to let young gay people out there know YOU ARE NOT ALONE. If you think other gay, transgender, or bisexual people are the only ones that …

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