Feeling Safe to Share
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
Doing the Steps, learning to set boundaries and working with others helped her connect with life again
Like a Prayer
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
When things got tough, she knew just what to do. Pray, pull over and reach for every tool
Accepting Myself
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
I went to the AA meeting, but I felt out of place. I couldn’t “come out” in prison. I didn’t want people to judge me. I didn’t trust anyone.
Sammy
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
A transgender alcoholic shares about feeling all alone, until one day it was no longer true
Just Be Myself
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
A long-time member and past trustee shares about his journey serving beyond the group as a gay man
Dear Grapevine
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
Letter from the Editor
August 2020
| LGBTQ+
In AA, you will find a community of kindred folks from every walk of life
Doing Time on the Chain Gang
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
He’d never had a speeding ticket and now he was doing serious time. His first stop in prison was AA
It Gets Worse
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
It was hard to imagine his bottom getting any lower—but then there was the case of the Palmetto bug in his glass of sweet vermouth
God’s Candy
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
A spoonful of sugar, figuratively speaking, smoothed her way into sobriety
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