The gay experience is different for each individual, but holds a common thread – the journey.
There’s no “coming out” to being straight. It is what it is. If you discover you’re outside of the norm, it’s a journey of self-understanding and acceptance.
Often, that journey is walked alone.
It doesn’t have to be that way. In all languages and cultures, the art of storytelling is passed between and across generations to teach, advise, and importantly – make the struggles and pains of life less intimidating, difficult, and isolating.
The LGBTQ community, especially youth, needs this storytelling tradition. A little over a generation ago, even speaking of the gay experience was verboten, dusted under the rug.
It doesn’t have to be that way. We’ve assembled a group of storytellers – all orientations, identities, backgrounds, upbringings, who are sharing themselves with the world.
The fear, loneliness, and heartbreak of the past belongs in the past. Generations have hidden their truth.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Welcome to A Gay Tale.
Story 001 – I told him I loved him
Story 002 – A reformed catfish swims upstream
Story 003 – I was the bully
Story 004 – Not myself tonight
Story 005 – Rethinking the gym
Story 006 – My first (and only) drug experience
Story 007 – I almost died in Palm Springs
Story 008 – The weirdest Grindr request
Story 009 – Self-destructive behaviors – Volume I
Story 010 – Self-destructive behaviors – Volume II
For more about us and our mission, click here.
–Team A Gay Tale
