Have you ever wanted a safe space where you can just exist?

Where for a moment in time you can be you with all the intricacies and parts of you that people don't always understand.

Welcome to In The Deep, stories that shape us. I'm your host Zach Stafford and each

episode we create a space to be you, all of you, and all your messy and complicated glory.

Every story shares what it means to be a black and Latinx man living with different

hardships, whether it's the struggle of identity, discrimination, or health, and how they've managed to push forward despite the circumstance.

We hope to get closer, even if it's just a storyteller. As a producer for Good Morning America,

Tony Morrison gets to share a lot of stories and over the years so many people have trusted him with their own.

However, it wasn't until late last year that Tony finally

trusted the public he served with his own truth, a truth that almost no one in his

life even knew. But before we get there, let's start at the beginning to better understand this big moment in his life.

As a Filipino-American man, a member of the LGBTQ-plus community, Tony has long found himself at a crossroads with his identity,

often finding comfort in silence or within the comforts of a makeshift closet.

And his story begins outside the US where life took a great deal from him at a young age.

I was born in the Philippines actually in Subu.

Anyone's heard of it out there?

And my birth father actually passed away when I was very young. I was maybe one or two years old.

So you could say right out the gate in life in my mom

mom ended up remarrying to an American

and we moved to the states.

It was probably like five years old

to go to old Orlando, Florida.

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