• Hellfire and Homophobia

  by Luck

  Names have been changed.   As a little kid, I hung around girls and envied the ones with perfect, straight hair. When I complimented their hair, they’d say, “You’re weird.”  Boys noticed too, and starting when I was 8, they called me “gay.”

• The Film That Changed My Life

  by Imogen Russell

  Names have been changed. I was 12. She was 14.  I’m 17 now, and two years doesn’t seem like such a big gap, but at the end of that summer Thea was going into high school while I was still a middle schooler.