When Love Changed: My Journey Through Identity and Attraction

If you had asked me five years ago who I was, I would have said it without blinking: “I’m Jamie, and I’m a lesbian.” That was the whole sentence. It was my introduction, my shorthand, the flag I planted in front of everyone I met. So nobody is more surprised than me that this turned […]
Finding Michael: My Journey to Acceptance in the Heart of Ohio

Growing up in Akron, Ohio, was like living in a glass house. It wasn’t the tiny, everyone-knows-everything kind of town, but it was close enough that people liked to pretend they did. For most of my life, finding acceptance in the heart of Ohio felt like a math problem I couldn’t solve: be just different […]