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Music, Pride, and Perseverance: Leading a Queer Marching Band During the AIDS Epidemic

 Hi, my name is Sam Gindin and I’m from Brooklyn.

Because I went to an all boys Catholi...

“I Don’t Want You To Go.” Gay Soldier Dares to Love Amidst a Backdrop of War & Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

I’m João Kiser from Milledgeville, Georgia. No such luck. It started with Fred's Story, and soon, more readers wanted to tell their stories.

So, now after several have been told, and more are being worked on, I've put together this area to have them all together.

Some are short, some longer, but all are straight from the person who's story it tells.

In all cases, the person has found the story good enough and wants to share it, so here they are.

1. Jeremy's Tale - A teen in the early sixties who comes to find through taking swimming lessons that being a homosexual isn't as bad as he's been taught.   series

2. Nathan's Tale - Nathan, thirteen, finds out how much fun it is to mess around with his two cousins.

   “If there’s somebody in there from work, I could end up getting beaten up or sacked.”

   Not only did those words cut me in half, but I began to worry that if the police raided the bar, my boyfriend and I would be in serious trouble because of my age.

   Although at 19 years old, it wasn’t against the law for me to go into a bar, I questioned if it was against the law for me to hold hands with another man in a public place.

   Terrified of the consequences of entering a world where people would have welcomed and accepted us for who we were, we drove off and went home.

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3. Mitchell's Tale - Mitch's cousin discovers his browser bookmarks!

4. Casey's Tale - His sixteenth birthday party, and his first joint, leads to his first time - and not alone.

5. Jacob's Tale - Sixteen year old Jacob thought his big chance to lose his virginity would come while visiting relatives in San Francisco.