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Life Stories

Los Angeles Police SWAT officers, and Los Angeles firemen wearing bulletproof helmets, evacuate a child, after a gunman barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles, July 21, 2018. (AP/Damian Dovargane)

A Trader Joe's hostage, one year later

Lynnie Westafer
Dapper Dan (Renell Medrano)

Dapper Dan: Fashion as liberation

D. Watkins
Bill Clinton; Donald Trump; Ghislaine Maxwell; Jeffrey Epstein (AP/Getty/Salon)

The friends of Jeffrey Epstein

Jesse Kornbluth
The study of the Finca Vigia colonial residence, 21 km from Havana, where US writer Ernest Hemingway lived for 21 years, as seen 15 January, 2007. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Searching for Ernest Hemingway in Cuba

Andrew Feldman
A pro-life supporter holds a crucifix during a demonstration outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center on May 31, 2019 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty/Michael Thomas)

Protect the sacred lives of women

Amanda Miska
"The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out" by William Dameron (Sharona Jacobs/Little A)

Scammers hid behind his face

Erin Keane
Youngsters head for a school bus in Berkeley, California on Feb. 24, 1970, where a busing program to mix black and white youngsters has been working for 18 months with apparent decline in opposition. (AP/RWK)

Busing in Berkeley: Kamala and me

Andrew O'Hehir
(Getty/eddyfish)

When is a mother good enough?

Sharon Lamb
"The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out" by William Dameron (Sharona Jacobs/Little A)

It took me 25 years to come out

William Dameron
Valerie Jarrett (Salon Talks)

Valerie Jarrett's leap of faith

D. Watkins
John Mayer, Bill Kreutzman and Bob Weir of Dead & Company (Getty/Theo Wargo)

How a Deadhead goes home

Amy Cuddy
The last eight survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force plane crash in the Andes in South America, huddle together in the craft's fuselage on their final night before rescue on Dec. 22, 1972. (AP Photo)

Returning to the scene of the crash

Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano
(Getty/tuncaycetin)

Fast cars and guitars with women's names

Megan Volpert
Ray Gootz (Alex Valderana)

Losing my virginity at 37

Ray Gootz
Participants in the 19th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride March make their way down New York’s Fifth Avenue, Sunday, June 26, 1988, New York. (AP/Mario Cabrera)

On allies, angels and Stonewall at 50

Brian Perrin
Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck, of Fredricksburg, Va., right, and Sophia Elwood, 7, the daughter of Peck's fiancee, place an American flag on one of the names inscribed at the south reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, July 4, 2014. (AP/Tina Fineberg)

The story of my new arms

John Peck, Dava Guerin, Terry Bivens
"My Favorite Murder;" "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" by Balli Kaur Jaswal; "The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters" by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Wikimedia/Harper Collins)

A murder podcast helped me write again

Balli Kaur Jaswal
(Getty/oleg66)

Dance class made me the man I am today

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

Pete Holmes on comedy, sex and God

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/demaerre)

"Therapy is for white people"

D. Watkins
Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten Glezman (Getty/Salon)

The belief that burns in me

Silas House

A physicist's revelation about religion

Terence Mickey
(Getty/Rhona Wise)

Toxic masculinity, our chronic illness

Erin Keane
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand; Libertarian stickers that were handed out are seen at the National Libertarian Party Convention, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP/John Raoux/Signet)

My regrettable libertarian romance

David Masciotra
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