<![CDATA[Stories by Kayne Young on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@kayne_8846?source=rss-faf23da4c986------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*gro_peZhzS7Ye0tCRaBmmQ.jpeg Stories by Kayne Young on Medium https://medium.com/@kayne_8846?source=rss-faf23da4c986------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:18:03 GMT <![CDATA[Leaving Ellensburg: How A Scared Little Boy Became A Free Gay Man]]>

What I carried away from a troubled childhood and what I finally learned to leave behind.

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Hypermasculinity and ‘I’m not gay, bro!’ culture

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What earlier changes can teach us about finding our place in the next one

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We may have won the power but it’s all about the follow through

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The lessons I learned as a hospice volunteer

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In ‘Measure of a Man’, Picard’s defense of Data speaks to the indignity of having to prove we count

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Did we trade our uniqueness for a seat at the heteronormative table?

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Thirteen years of military service, belonging, and cost of hiding who I am

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What if pleasure belongs in our spiritual lives?

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How the desire to grow can become another reason we judge ourselves

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