Stories

Coming Out, Part Six: Prism

  vii. Exodus: The Exit At the beginning of 2012, Justin Lee of GCN shared a stage with Alan Chambers, president of Exodus ...

Coming Out, Part Five: Home

Continued from Coming Out, Part Four: Bellow XVI. Coming Out It was time to talk to mom and dad. I had no other ...

Coming Out, Part Four: Bellow

Continued from Coming Out, Part Three: Water Fire XII. Freshman Year “I’m gay.” One of the first people I came out to was a ...

Coming Out, Part Three: Water Fire

Continued from Coming Out, Part Two: Albatross VIII. Alaska A couple months after I left the band, my father received a phone call from ...

Coming Out, Part Two: Albatross

Continued from Coming Out, Part One: Preacher Boy IV. High School Between band practices and concerts, I struggled to fit in at high ...

Coming Out, Part One: Preacher Boy

I. Boyhood “Wake up, Jacob, kindle up a light if you wanna see Corey in a polecat fight!” This was the jingle that ...

The Ian Shoelace Incident

Continued from Clairvoyant, Clarity, Catharsis I left my cousin’s wedding with a knot in my stomach. It had already been five months since the ...

The End of the World Often Comes

Where will I go? The sun was barely peaking over the trees when I pulled away from Snaggy Mountain, an artist retreat in ...