It’s been said, “We’ve all got crosses to bear!” Coming out as gay, job loss, relationship breakups, dead car batteries, losing a loved one – each in it’s own right – a cross to bear as part of life. Then on the other had, we all have masks we hide behind. Masks that keep people…

What happens when you arrive into this world, fully human, nothing that from the outside looks unusual, yet, on the inside there’s still “some assembly required?” You start going through life, knowing that something just isn’t quite right but you live as if everything is o.k. Military life, working in the aerospace industry, does nothing…

Guilt, shame, and your truth. Gnawing, eating away at you until you finally test the waters to see what happens. What you end up discovering is, “You kissed a man and you liked it!” But how do you face your wife and tell her you’re a not the man she thinks you are because you’re…

No matter where you turn in the debate about homosexuality, you’re sure to find some one quoting bible scriptures. It seems to be the easiest, yet most misunderstood defense against those who believe that we were born this way and those who stand firm in their vows that homosexuality is an abomination against God and…

It’s one thing to come out of the closet. It’s a whole other journey when you’re Dad comes out to you and then tells you shortly there after, “I’m HIV+!” Welcome to Suzanne Phare’s life! A life that turned her formative and teen years into an expedition of SHOCK, AWE, & HEALING! Truth is, parent…

You’re man’s fooling around on the side. You don’t like it and you sure don’t like it when you find out he’s doing it, not with another woman, but with a MAN. Now what are you going to do? Before you go all brash and dramazilla on him, let’s think about the real question. Is…

First you come out, then you hook up a few times, date someone or several someone’s regularly for awhile (hopefully), break up a few times, find Mr. or Mrs. Right, and then if you happen to have the urge, and live in a sane state where Gay Marriage is legal, you get married. That’s quite…

Oh my beautiful baby girl! No more loving words are ever uttered than when a mother see’s and holds her newborn baby gurl. Just ask Kristie Handzlik, she’ll tell you with a gleam and a tear in her eye…for more than one reason. In Kristie’s work, born this way brought on a whole new meaning…

Born this way! Those three words are so much more than a Lady GaGa song. They’re the truth that each and everyone of us in the LGBT community say to ourselves, in our heads, day after day, until one day we just decide to come clean and let someone know, “I’m gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,…

Ash didn’t set out to become a viral sensation with her TEDx talk “Coming Out of Your Closet” or her Boulder Ignite speech, “I am SO GAY”. She was just a person with a lot on her mind and a story to share. Nonetheless, her willingness to strike a conversation about tough topics inspired more…