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Stories with keyword: queer

The Kiss

Keywords gay, Gay storyteller, glbtqia, GLBTQIA storyteller, homosexual, queer

Storytellers

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Barefoot In The Park Revisited

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The New Yorker

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Mir-cat Manor

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Can You Handle This?

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A Muffin Appears

Joanne is a free spirit who’s worked as a circus aerialist and a touring theatre performer, and her new Argentinian boyfriend (and ESL student) Alejandro is somewhat the opposite – clean cut, responsible and stable. When Joanne invites him to … Continue reading →

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Suspicious Packages II: Electric Boogaloo

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You’ve Worried Enough For Today

From childhood, Stefan’s whole life is music – he composes, sings, plays multiple instruments; he’s driven to become a renowned singer and instrumentalist, and express the world of emotions through sound. He applies to NYU for music performance and production, … Continue reading →

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Q is for Questioning

Paul is working at a boarding school in Switzerland, and one summer day, smokes pot with a new friend, Adam, out in the woods. Paul starts to feel a flushed giddiness that he equates with the beginnings of romance — … Continue reading →

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Howdy, Pardner!

Javier grows up in Puerto Rico on an American consulate base, frustrated by teachers who don’t understand how bilingual and bicultural he is. As he grows up and spends his graduate school years in Michigan, he feels both trapped between … Continue reading →

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Everyday Is Halloween

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Breaking Through

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Straight Flush

David has had Crohn’s Disease for years, which is now manageable thanks to medication and life adjustments, but he still has to be very conscious when he goes out about knowing where a restroom is, and, sometimes, making a very … Continue reading →

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Both Sides Now

Tara grew up a working class kid in Queens, dividing her time between her divorced parents — one side Italian, one side Irish. She had tough street smarts, and, at the same time, a secret love for literature, especially Shakespeare. … Continue reading →

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What Kind of Friend

It’s 2010, and Hank is living in NYC post grad school, and is in deep credit card debt. He becomes friends with a fellow actor, Walter, who’s so broke he’s living in his van. Hank invites Walter to be his … Continue reading →

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I Am (So Gay)

Soce the rapper moved to NYC from NH in 2003, and immediately started going to open mics to try to get time onstage. He noticed right away that there didn’t seem to be any other rappers who were gay besides … Continue reading →

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Personal Best

Kevin decides to combat his nagging insecurity that he’s the weakest member of his comedy troupe, The State, by getting away for a while, and taking a cross-country “hippie bus trip” from NYC to San Francisco. Amidst much joviality and … Continue reading →

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Barefoot in the Park

Brand new to NYC at 18 after growing up in conservative, closeted Cincinnati, Kevin tests out a gay bar on the Upper West Side. He feels out of place, but does end up getting very very drunk, and remembers that … Continue reading →

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Solitary Man

After attending the birthday party of a guy he’s crushed out on, Greg takes a walk through Tompkins Square Park, intending to enjoy some solitude, then find dinner, then go home. When he goes to leave the park at about … Continue reading →

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Unforgettable

John does a gay Craigslist hook-up, and agrees to go to the ad-placer’s home. The man tells him, right before John leaves, that he’s a little person. John’s irritated that this man wasn’t more forthcoming prior to this, but feels … Continue reading →

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Ham and Samurai

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