https://youtu.be/A87tqS0UuK8 Shannon Oury (she/her) – practiced law for 20 years before changing careers to follow her passion to provide affordable housing to low income families. She was appointed as the Executive Director of the Lawrence Housing Authority in...
Articles & Resources
Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 3 Episode 3 | Carla’s Story
https://youtu.be/nzcWq2TbOGc Carla Mullins is an adjunct instructor, mental health therapist, mother, wife, extreme introvert, friend of cats, lifelong pacific northwesterner, and increasingly fearless lesbian poet. Check out Carla's first published poem here:...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 3 Episode 2 | Barbara’s Story
https://youtu.be/1hnwOnp5lr8 Mother of two kids, a 21 year old transgender daughter, cisgender daughter. Writer, online content strategist and creator. From Barbara: If folks would like to follow my adventures in growing flowers they can connect with Queen Bee Flower...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 3 Episode 1 | Anne-Marie + Tonda’s Story
https://youtu.be/QdxSGDl1kCg Anne-Marie and Tonda share more about their love story, and how they created their wonderful life together as a lesbian couple after Anne-Marie came out later in life.
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 8 | Andrea’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfxbU54qHU Andrea Hewitt who came out at the age of 44 after having two children and being married to two different men. Finding very few resources for people coming out later on in life she created the website a late life lesbian...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 7 | Anna’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_5QNn5IM8 Anna Empey grew up on a 2,000-acre apple and fruit orchard in Eastern Washington. She graduated with her degree from Brigham Young University in Anthropology, with a Minor in Communications. Anna came out to her mormon...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 6 | Miriam’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeL4raHU71g Miriam Grace, Psychotherapist, Writer, Supervisor, and Lecturer, works remotely from her home in Sheffield, UK. She has been in practice for over 30 years and her current research and writing focuses on women in midlife...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 5 | Pasha’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOV2zp9Mjl4 Pasha Marlowe holds a masters in marriage and family therapy and currently works as a therapeutic comedy coach and pleasure podcast host. Check out Pasha across the web: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pasha.marlowe...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 4 | April’s Story
https://youtu.be/lKrUbGw5L68 April grew up Independent Fundamentalist Baptist. Our discussion focuses on coming out from a conservative religious background. We reflect on faith, God, and finding community.
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 3 | Javana’s Story
https://youtu.be/lhZ4wvhxndc Javana (like Banana) is a 40 years old, mom to two children, business owner, holistic dentist, intuitive and tarot card reader. She used to be a fundamental evangelical Christian, she had her spiritual awakening in 2011, and then her...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 2 | Robin’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z__kRLybmk&t=3s Robin describes herself as a VERY late-blooming lesbian who really wasn't aware of any romantic feelings toward women while growing up. Although in hindsight, she does remember what she would describe today, as a...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 2 Episode 1 | Samantha’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6GfLzP__0 Samantha Fox is a late bloomer, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in New York City and a guide/coach for women coming-out later in life in her newly launched program Curious, Questioning and Coming...