I'm From Driftwood

The “I’m From Driftwood” book puts 51 true and inspiring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories into the palm of your hand. The stories inside range from coming out and falling in love to doing laundry and going to the prom. Each purchase helps ImFromDriftwood.com, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, collect and share more stories to send a powerful message to queer youth: you are not alone.

The “I’m From Driftwood” book puts 51 true and inspiring LGBTQ stories into the palm of your hand. The stories inside range from coming out and falling in love to doing laundry and going to the prom. Each purchase helps ImFromDriftwood.com collect and share more stories to send a powerful message to queer youth: you are not alone. The "I'm From Driftwood" book is a companion anthology to the acclaimed non-profit also called I'm From Driftwood. Originally published as a print book, the anthology shares true, first-person LGBT stories from around the world. The book was edited by Nathan Manske, who launched the web site in March, 2009. The "ImFromDriftwood" website offers an astounding variety of true stories and video accounts of LGBT lives, written with candor, humor, tears and bravery. They range from one man’s closeted life in Indiana in the 1950s to another man’s membership in an underground gay-straight alliance in present-day Indonesia. The web site allows everyone to post their personal stories to inform, educate and encourage others.

Editor Nathan Manske is the founder and Executive Director of I’m From Driftwood, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which collects and shares lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer stories from all walks of life to help deepen our understanding of each other. In 2011, Manske and the IFD team completed a 4-month, 50-state story collection tour, as well as accompanied and collected stories from the riders of AIDS/LifeCycle, the largest fundraiser in the world for HIV/AIDS prevention. Manske shares stories regularly on The Huffington Post’s Gay Voices vertical. In 2010, Manske was one of The Advocate’s “Forty Under 40” for the work he’s accomplished for the LGBTQ community. I’m From Driftwood stories have been adapted for the stage, in a self-published book and have been seen and heard in podcasts and live reading events around the country.