This book allows people to become visible, positive influences and role models for the GLBT community all over the world. This book is also eye-opening and presents recent research to help the GLBT community to break their silence. It also encourages them to speak out on issues of homosexuality, civil rights, personal freedoms, and social entitlements. From the hearts of the people who lived them. It isn't easy for anyone to reveal themselves to the public with such honesty and vulnerability, especially those who have spent years hiding their true selves from even those closest to them. The people who have shared their stories with you are brave and heroic and deserve our gratitude for the mere fact of them speaking up. And it is important for the people who have so generously shared their stories to know that they have not gone to waste, that they will not be buried.