storycorps Archives

New StoryCorps Initiative to Capture Stories of LGBTQ Elders — Here’s How to Help

May 10, 2019

StoryCorps, the national oral history project, is launching a new initiative to capture the stories of LGBTQ elders born before the Stonewall Riots. Even if you don’t fit this category yourself, you can interview an LGBTQ elder and help preserve their stories for the future. The project is personal to StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, who has said his own dad’s coming out and relating the story of Stonewall helped inspire StoryCorps itself.

Listen: Two Dads Share Story of Adoption

September 8, 2016

Take five minutes today to listen to the story of two dads in Atlanta and how they adopted their son in 1999–with a little help from the community.

StoryCorps Founder Cites His Gay Dad’s Tale of Stonewall as Inspiration

April 21, 2015

Dave Isay, founder of the phenomenal StoryCorps oral history project heard on NPR (and on the Web), spoke recently about how the inspiration for StoryCorps came from his dad’s coming out and relating the story of Stonewall.

NPR Nails Story on Transgender Parent

March 9, 2012

Sometimes a story about an LGBT family comes along that really stands out for its warmth, understanding, and optimism. Today, NPR’s StoryCorps ran “A Mom Becomes A Man, And A Family Sticks Together,”about Les GrantSmith, a transgender man, his husband Scott, and their two daughters. It’s a wonderful account that stays consistently positive without hiding the challenges the family faced. Here’s the lovely beginning:

New Resource for Teaching LGBT History in Schools

September 29, 2011

There’s a great new resource for teaching LGBT history in middle and high schools—and it might even teach us parents something. The Anti-Defamation League, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and StoryCorps have just released Unheard Voices, “an oral history and curriculum project that will help educators to integrate LGBT history, people and issues into their instructional programs.”