Self-proclaimed “Country Queer” Jonah Mossberg from rural northeastern connecticut described:

“One thing that did, in CT, that did really save me, was:  this queer youth conference that happens once a year and it still happens.  Back then…now it’s called “True Colors” but back then it was called “Children from the Shadows”…Bad. Name.  I’m really glad they changed it, but it was like this queer youth conference that I went to.  I think I must have snuck away to it somehow, and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, there are other queer people around me, wow, this is amazing.’”—Quote from oral history “Country Queers”,  September 17, 2013