Here’s My Story
HERE’S MY STORY is a feature on The G&LR‘s website, where you can share some part of your life story with other readers. We receive a lot of submissions of personal memoirs, but the magazine doesn’t publish first-person narratives as a general rule. “Here’s My Story” is a space that allows our readers (and others) to talk about their experiences as members of the LGBT+ community. There are no restrictions on subject matter, but some broad areas might include:
- Coming-out stories
- Memorable love affairs
- An epiphany (e.g. a work of art)
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Memories of a Gay Boy
By Richard Bagarozy
I only imagined that all boys felt as I did when I experienced the intense and almost unsettling vision of male beauty when I fell in love with my classmate.
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Madrid, Revisited
By Ken Harvey
I used to think that romance meant a moment when time stops and all you understand is the emotion of the here and now. But what happens when you have 25 years of shared experience? How do you forget all that time?
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A Final Conversation
By Michael Cuglietta
I once fancied myself the leader of our little crew of misfits. But, looking back, I believe Jamie to be the real leader.
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Gay with Gut Issues: Comparing my LGBT and Celiac Experiences
By Eleni Stephanides
[Celiac disease is] similar to the way in which some people don’t take LGBT people’s sexual orientations seriously (with comments like “It’s just a phase”).
Losing My Religion, and Finding It
By Stacey Chomiak
I loved my church community, but they were not able to love me back. It almost broke me. And it has broken too many other people.
MoreKeith from Kutztown and Me
By Robin Gow
Keith would have been sixty this year. He passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1990. If I could see him, I would tell him that I look for him everywhere I go.
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