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02 July 2018
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, on Netflix. Watch as she shares her story
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13 June 2018
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22 March 2018
An interesting read, and something to think about.
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22 March 2018
Looking for more stories to share on this page, remember you can share them anonymously through messages or by emailing them to stories@queervoicez.org. We are also looking for people willing to share their stories in a book. Let us know if you are interested, we are just finalizing plans now.
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20 March 2018
So many exciting things happening. The website is almost ready. Now we are planning a book. Let us know if you are interested in having your story published.
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16 March 2018
contact us via stories@queervoicez.org . Website coming soon.
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16 March 2018
Sharing stories
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15 March 2018
Please feel free to share this page with everyone you know.
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15 March 2018
This is one of the reasons I believe so strongly in sharing our stories. The young people need to know they are not alone, they need to know that there are others who may have struggled like they are and that things get better. They need a place to have a voice.
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15 March 2018
Anonymous Share: There are so many factors to relate in a person’s coming out story, that it is kind of hard to decide what is relevant. I suppose that is why each person’s story is their own. As I sit here writing I am not even sure that I will send this. Perhaps this is more for me than for anyone else. Here goes nothing, or maybe here goes everything.
I knew I was different when I was 4 or 5 but I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint how or why until much later. I would come to f
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14 March 2018
Ivan Coyote is at Grant MacEwan tonight and it is open to the public. Amazing storyteller.
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13 March 2018
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I was 15 years old when I came out as transgender (female to male) to a therapist I was seeing at my parents' request. The therapist told me I didn't know what I was talking about and ended the sessions. At the time I couldn't put a name to that terrible feeling, only that I felt shitty and ashamed for being me. That I was some kind of monster whose true nature had to be kept hidden lest I scare the townfolk. Keep in mind I lived in a smallish northern tow
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13 March 2018
Some prompts to help you get started with your story. Not all stories have a happy ending, all our stories are important. Please feel free to share here. Remember you can send it through messages if you want it to be anonymous.
1. How old were you when you first came out? 2. Who did you first tell? 3. How did it feel for you? 4. What was the reaction of the people you told? 5. Where were you when you told them? 6. How did you feel after? 7. What happened after? 8. How did you tell them? 9. How did you prepare for it? 10. Did it change anything for you? 11. How did you cope? 12. Are you happy to be out?
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13 March 2018
My Story It took me a long time to come out, to admit to myself that I was gay. I grew up in a gay household and having two moms in the 70’s and 80’s meant there was no legal rights, no human rights, so there was a lot of hiding, and being secret.
I started sleeping with women in high school but I was just being “experimental”, I wasn’t gay. I was nothing like my mother. I was 42 when I became true to myself, that is a long time to hide who you are.
It wasn’t until my husband died that I finally came out, he was all about being true to yourself and following your own path. Through that grieving time I finally realized I didn’t have a sexual identity issue, I had a mother issue. I had been trying so hard to not be like her I was making all the wrong choices for myself.
I didn’t actually “come out”, I don’t remember actually telling anyone specifically, I just started dating women and my friends were all ok with that. Unfortunately, I was so comfortable with that that I didn’t have a conversation with my grown daughters and it was some comment on Facebook where they found out officially and they were not impressed to find out that way. It caused a bit of angst, but we worked through it. I wish I could have done that differently.
It was a relief to me to finally come out, but more so in that I was being true to myself. Nothing really happened in my life to change, except me. To this day I am a huge advocate for sharing our stories, for being true to ourselves and being out and open about who we are.
There is too much of a stigma attached to being LGBT even though here in Canada we have rights. I feel we need to speak out more, make the stigma go away by normalizing who we are. We are your coworkers, your bosses, your friends, and your family, and that is not going to change.
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01 January 1970
An Exceptional place that allows you to open up and share your story. Either as yourself or as an anonymous poster. Every story deserves to be told and every story deserves to be heard.
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