I remember a handful of instances where I had contact with gay people, gay culture and my own latent gay emotions when I was young. Before I had a shred of understanding of the true nature of who I am, these moments were frozen in my memory with crystal clarity and generated a profound emotional [...]
Tomorrow I will be 25 years old. It’s kind of shocking to me because in some ways it feels like it has been much longer than that. The last four and a half years alone have been so full they could fill 25 years on their own. At the same time that timeframe is the [...]
This morning I did what I always do on Sunday mornings and I started reading today’s secrets from PostSecret. Today the routine was different because of the addition of a short video. People on the street were asked to share their secrets and the result was different from what I expected. I had expected something [...]
In piecing together the events of four years ago for the Surviving Year One series, I’m running aground on two main issues. The first has to do with bringing it all together. I originally thought that this would be a simple act of just slapping parts of my writing on the screen and throwing it online [...]
In the weeks after coming out I slowly started to come to grips with the realities of what I was facing. My life, which had previously been laid out so clearly, started to lose its focus and it was clear that I would be treading in uncharted territory. Here is another excerpt from my journal [...]