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Gwendolyn shares her coming out as transgender story with Ian and even though it has costs her jobs, relationships, her home and for a time caused her to live in crisis, but being correctly gendered makes it all worthwhile

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Michelle Axelson (45) about her move to Provincetown, Massachusetts where she is known for her activism and as the owner of the historic and iconic feminist bookstore Womencrafts.

Colleagues and wives, Dr. Hilda Ontiveros (41) and Dr. Jesse Soledad Arrieta (44), share a conversation about their roots, Chicana and Women’s Studies, and the importance of documenting oral history within their community. They also talk about their connection to...

Dominique Robbins (32) and his husband Rockie Sanders (61) discuss their love story, coming out as gay, and Dominique’s work in the music industry.

LGBTQ love story

One Small Step partners Jennifer Weston (56) and Paul Wood (59) discuss the people and events that have most influenced their beliefs, why they are often troubled by people with similar beliefs, and why they are scared about the current...

Partially about being a female in the science world, but mostly about being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Carmen and Elbe met a few months prior at a support group Elbe started for parents of LGBTQ kids in their conservative town. They’re both parents of a transgendered child. Carmen talks about what she has learned and the support...

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Daniel Frank Kelley (49) about his career in drag performance as the character Paige Turner.

Elbe and Ella, mother and daughter, share Ella's story of coming out as transgender at 7 years old.

(Photo by Ryan Haggerty) Fr. Vinny McKiernan's worked at the Newman Center on the Ohio State University campus for 26 years. Over the course of his life and work, he’s been a novice director with the Paulist Fathers. He’s also...

Madie discusses how love and acceptance changed her perspective of her life's meaning, along with how her childhood guided her toward her identity.

LGBTQ community in San Francisco during the time of Harvey Milk

Steve Desroches (47) and Jane Martin (69) talk about their deep affection for their shared alma mater Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Desroches a member of the Class of 1996 and Martin Class of 1974.

One Small Step partners Liz Hicks (78) and Patrick Walsh (55) discuss moving away from the Catholic church, how they became aware of racism, and why they fear social isolation is harming our country.

Lina talks with SAGE Elder Judy at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland about her experience being gay over the last 50 years

Ken Smith, a young gay African-American man from Dayton, Ohio, started coming out in the 1990s. His openly lesbian grandmother Grace (Thornton) Vaughn, gave him some important advice from 20 years earlier: "You do You!" Grace sued to marry her...

A 89 year old transgender woman answers a few simple questions about her life.

An interview with a lesbian in Anchorage, AK about living in the LGBTQ community and growing up with it, as part of a national series documenting the stories of LGBTQ elders to preserve the history of the community.

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Mackenzie Miller (34) about his work as a drag queen in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Tracy Yellen (52) interviews her friend Ruben Vogt (38) about his early life, political career, public service, and LGBTQIA+ rights. The two also discuss the El Paso mass shooting that occurred in 2019 and Ruben chairing the One Fund committee,...

I interviewed my sister so that I could better understand what it is like to be a part of the LGBTQ community and what it was like to come out.

The life of a queer Arab woman and Asylee in America

Steve Desroches (48) talks to musician Jon Richardson (35) about his work in Provincetown, Massachusetts and in particular his role as a piano man in a town with a long tradition of piano bars.

Janice James started coming out as a lesbian at age 13 with her first love for a neighbor girl in the 1960s. Since then, she's survived stigma, mental health struggles, intimate partner abuse, a name change and ultimately a life...