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Here’s a list of every openly queer person I knew when I was 15: That’s it. None. Not even myself. Oh sure, Paul Lynde and Liberace were flouncing on television; [...]

Byline: Matt Cain I'm proud to be from Bolton. There were days in the past when I never thought I'd say that. Because when I was growing up, in the [...]

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was an unathletic, slightly effeminate [...]

Joe Lycett, comedian I spent most of my school years under section 28 [a clause banning schools from 'promoting homosexuality'] -- something I only realised this year. I thought it [...]

Byline: Celeste Lecesne Celeste Lecesne is a playwright and performer who co-founded the Future Perfect Project, a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ storytellers, and the Trevor Project, [...]

Byline: Ian Eagleton I was 12 when it happened. Dad was parking the car and we were getting ready for a torturous hour of food shopping. Suddenly, over the radio, [...]

Byline: Amrou Al-Kadhi When I was a child living in Bahrain, I used to dread family parties. Not because I didn't want to see my relatives, whom I loved, but [...]

Byline: Zachary Taglia As a young closeted gay child in a heteronormative society, there was nothing more crushing yet eye-opening than finding out you're gay from the aptly-named 'Am I [...]

Byline: John Paul Brammer I wasn't too young, at age 6, to hear that 'queers deserve a bullet between the eyes,' nor too young, at 7, to be called a [...]

Byline: Opinion by Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) -- I am happily paired off with my partner, out to my family and in my workplace, and to you, dear reader. And [...]

Byline: Emilia Ferrante Sometimes I wish I had gotten the gay college experience I thought I would have - 'experimenting' with girls until I figured out that, hey, they weren't [...]

Byline: Opinion by Rakesh Satyal (CNN) -- I first read Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' in 1992, two years before the iconic film version was finally released. I discovered [...]

Byline: Rebekah Bruesehoff Last week, Elliot Page came out as transgender. Elliot is an Oscar-nominated actor you might know from his roles in 'Juno' and 'Umbrella Academy.' I didn't know [...]

Byline: André Wheeler Growing up, 'faggot' was the one word I never wanted to be called. I could stand sissy, punk, and even homo. But 'faggot' felt like a scarlet [...]

Byline: Kerry Hudson I ricocheted across Britain from the fishing working class of Aberdeen where I was born. Up and down the country we went, taking in mining villages in [...]

Byline: Nathasha Carthew Growing up in a one parent family in a council house in rural Cornwall, the world I read about in books and saw on TV (when we [...]

Byline: Tanya Paperny I joined my high school's gay-straight alliance when I was 14 and became its co-president the following year. In college, I led the Queer Student Union, and [...]

Post Views: 1,212 The 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz made a loud return to the silver screen for two weekends in March - this time as one of the [...]

Chastity Bono finished the guest list for her eighth birthday party and showed her mom the 10 names. Her mother, the famous Cher, glanced at the list. ``These are all [...]

A 21-year-old former Utah high school football player regrets telling his parents he was gay, and resolves not to tell his friends. A Texas college student is happier now he has 'come out.' A 20-year-old West Virginia woman began talks of the tension between her desires and her strict Baptist beliefs.