Coming Out Again: Reaching, Building, Educating, Doing.
by: Joe Varisco About a month ago I found out that I am HIV positive. Adaptation, embrace change. I found that in speaking this news I was liberated and empowered […]
Category Archives: Coming Out
Words On Coming Out: Empowerment Through Writing
By: Lourdes Gil A few months ago I started blogging with this friend of mine, you know; he has a website/blog thing and writes about everything gay (especially on issues […]
The Problem of the Straight Savior: Thoughts On an Unredeeming Social Experiment
by: Derrick Clifton As a gay Christian who grew up internalizing anti-gay theology, I can do without Timothy Kurek attempting to describe any aspect of what I endured. It’s unacceptable for him […]
Why I’m Not (Yet) Out Of The Closet About S+M
by: Clarisse Thorn October 11 was National Coming Out Day. I cried when I saw Milk and I think outness can be an important political act, but I’m not coming out. Not yet. […]
Coming Out of the Digital Closet
by: Zach Stafford Before I came out, I used to peer out through a window—a chat window on my computer. From the comfort of my digital closet, AOL Instant Messenger, […]
Art School Confidential: The First Time I Tried to Come Out to My Father
by: Lindsey Gavel I remember the details of that day like it was yesterday. It was a Saturday. Chilly-ish for an early September day. Mom was working that morning, and […]
Close Encounters of the First Kind: When My Partner Met My Family
by: Michael Matthew Overman My partner Frankie and I had been dating for over fifteen months when he finally met my grandmother, Nanny. He’d first met my parents the spring […]
Green Skirt; Or I Love My Mom
by: Caitlin Bergh I came out to my mom on a Christmas Eve during college and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly the bath salts she had been hoping for. […]
Why I Abandoned My Faith But Still Consider Myself A Catholic
by: Mark Nott I came to god under similar circumstances as most of us who find god later in life: I was looking for something. I was in need of […]
In Our Words In Review: Coming Out
by: The In Our Words Writing Staff It Can Be Scary Coming Out As Black and Gay by Zach Stafford This Is Because I Am Out: Notes On Visibility by […]
