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News channel celebrates reporter who came out as trans in heartwarming segment
“It really in many ways feels like that for the first time in just over 24 years my life is really, truly mine.”
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How Melissa Etheridge’s pool parties with Ellen & Rosie inspired “The L Word”
“I stopped watching The L Word because I lived it!”
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Her classmates defecated on a Pride flag so this student came out & fought back
“Everything changed this year at our school, and it wouldn’t have happened if a hate crime didn’t happen.”
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Wheelchair-using hockey player shares his heartbreakingly beautiful coming out story
“I would go on these walks and think about going up to Pacific Coast Highway and driving my chair in front of a car and just stopping it all because of how lonely I felt and how sad I was,” the young athlete admitted.
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This straight southern Army veteran has a message for the LGBTQ community
A gay son. A queer daughter married to a transgender partner. And the father who loves them all? He’s a 63-year-old white man from a small town in Georgia.
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Russia’s top tennis player Daria Kasatkina comes out
“Judging by [the way] things are going now, it will never be OK” for LGBTQ people to hold hands in public, she said.
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How coming out in the 1970s helped me make life changing decisions as I got older
I couldn’t expect other people to be comfortable with me unless I was comfortable with myself.
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No matter where you are in the world escaping the closet isn’t easy. Try it in Ukraine.
Carrying letters of the alphabet as part of our identities also means helping to carry those still in pain forward with us.
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Molly Shannon opens up about her closeted gay dad in touching interview
When she was young, her father was driving drunk and had an accident that killed her mother, sister, and cousin. She and Howard Stern spoke about the guilt he carried after that and explored the depths of what haunted him.
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Magic Johnson explains how he learned to love his out & proud gay son
“He was, like, squeezing all the air out of me. That’s when I knew, there’s nothing but love here.”