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What it was like for LGBT AAs and how they

reached out for recovery

Every alcoholic in recovery travels their own path to the doors of AA. The authors in this chapter are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Some didn’t realize their sexual orientation until after getting sober. Others knew who they were but were reluctant to share. But all found they had to be honest about themselves in order to stay sober.

Getting honest for any AA can be difficult, but it is worth it, writes one AA, recognizing “that somewhere among the readership of this magazine there are other persons like me, as I once was—shakily sober, but still living in guilt and the indescribable fear that homosexuality will prove to be an insurmountable obstacle in the path of sobriety and happiness. Have hope, my unknown friends,” he says. “You can be happy and live a useful life.”

The stories in this chapter show how gay and lesbian alcoholics recognized their alcoholism and—quickly or slowly—reached out for recovery and began to accept themselves and become part of the AA Fellowship.