Fine weather friends: Good riddance to bad rubbish I consider myself to be something of an expert on “fine weather friends”. My mum used to talk about them from the time I was a kid and they have passed through my life. I just did not reckon that Andre...
To say that I was ecstatic when gay marriage was finally recognized in the Supreme court. Massachusetts was ahead of time in terms of accepting LGBT people so this was just an added bonus. One of the tricky bits had been about bringing my long-term boyfriend Marx from Ukraine....
Gay Conversion Nightmare – We Did all the Wrong Things It seems extraordinary to some who do not know the full story, but I do not blame my father at all for what happened to me. How could he know that he too was a victim of a quack?...
Tom Boy: A “Butch” Straight Woman’s Story I will not repeat the names that I was called at school because I actually think they are too offensive for public consumption. I have had many years of living this dual existence. On one hand I am a very powerful, independent,...
I can hear the tut-tuts of condemnation even as I write but don’t worry…nobody is more revolted by my actions than me. I have been living with this guilt for the last twenty-eight months and I think it is time I told my sister what is going on. My...
Gay Marriage: Apparently I am not a Family Member The pain of losing Hugo was hard enough. It was worse because I never got to say goodbye. You see Hugo had had a wife and four children. When his wife Grace had an affair, he was 47. At that...
A mother’s tale of courage and conviction after her gay son committed suicide I think I have been through all the phases of grief, at least the ones that I know of any way. However, I don’t think I will ever forget the day I walked in on my...
Old gay, is it too late to come out? One of the more pathetic signs in a nightclub is that of an ageing “queen” enthusiastically dancing, getting lots of friendly banter but no offers to go home. They really are nice people but the time for the sexual game...
A Very Uncomfortable Unrequited Love – It has now sadly come to this…I have to keep praying that I can start loving my wife the way that she deserves to be loved. In a way I feel guilty for leading her own. My closer was so well covered that...
Betrayal in the Home – The day that I was attacked was a lesson for me and also a challenge. I could scarcely believe what I was witnessing. Suddenly, these bunch of guys had jumped me. I had been walking with my older brother after class. I figured that...
Self-Hating Gay Stigma to Self-Acceptance. It took me so many years to finally admit to myself that I was a gay man. Looking back, it is clear that I knew this right from the moment I could think. It wasn’t as if a great big rainbow came out...
I am planning to have a secret gay wedding : even though I know it is illegal in my country I will call myself Jemah to protect the innocent. I was born in Kenya to a demonstrably staunch catholic family. To say that my upbringing was austere and severe...
Probation Officer Warned Me About My Prison Lover, Life After Incarceration Let us first get the first things out. I am a drug addict and have gotten into a whole load of problems because of my addiction. That is how I landed in prison the first place. I was...
Sex Change, The Family Living in Fantasy and Denial – What is in a name? I should know. To a transgender person, these are some of the most critical decisions that you have to make. Often, the reaction is even more important than the initial decision. If you are...
Homelessness by Orientation – I have been living on the streets for 1 month. I never in my life imagined that I would end up this way. My father (who says he loves me very much) is paying the bills in a home where I am excluded. My psychotic...
My gay boyfriend slept with a woman, is he straight for pay? Being a gay boyfriend is never easy and my romantic life has been a bit of a mess for quite a few years. The good ones were soon snapped up by my love rivals. Am I bitter?...
Read the amazing LGBT interview we had with this two wonderful members of the LGBT community. Be inspired with their experiences! Of course, as many people know… you can’t help who you fall in love with but we hope that these interviews help shed some light into how society...
Why me? Why now? How could I have been such a fool? Those are the questions that keep making the rounds in my head as I contemplate yet another pang of pain. I met Gary at university. He was doing finance and we shared two course units. Gary was...
Gay Conversion Therapy: A Converted Straight Lives to Tell the Tale Let us get the preliminaries out of the way: I am a 35-year-old gay man. You cannot imagine how long it took me to get to that point. It is shocking to even consider that I was once...
My name is Leo, but it wasn’t always so and I am finding freedom. When I was a young child I had no idea of the freedom that existed outside of my family circle. My family came from Russia just a few months before I was born, my grandma...
