Why Everyone Should Come Out of the Closet
Dillan DiGiovanni thinks everyone has a coming out story to share for National Coming Out Day. — This coming Saturday, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day to celebrate LGBTQ visibility. If you...
View ArticleThe Good Men Project: Coming Out 2014
from “Why I’m an Out, Bisexual Dad” Coming Out stories are important. Each new one could help someone else realize that they are not alone. The Good Men Project knows that there are millions of...
View ArticleHow a Gay Dad Comes Out Today – and Every Day
After Ian Colvin came out many years ago as a gay man, he thought the conversation was over. Today, on National Coming Out Day, he realizes it is an ever-present discussion. Here is how it goes. —...
View ArticleWhy Coming Out Matters
“Come out to your relatives…come out to your friends…if indeed they are your friends. Come out to your neighbors…to your fellow workers…to the people who work where you eat and shop…”—Harvey Milk —...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day and Recommitment to Peace through Justice
Embed from Getty Images On October 11 each year, we commemorate National Coming Out Day. Activists Robert Eichsberg and Jean O’Leary founded the holiday on October 11, 1988 to mark the one-year...
View ArticleHey Straight Person, Did You Ignore National Coming Out Day This Week?
— National Coming Out Day came and went this week, likely without notice by many straight people. That is because you have had the privilege to never have needed it — National Coming Out Day was this...
View Article4 Young LGBTQ People Share Intimate Coming Out Stories
By Dan Tracer National coming out day still means something, even as diverse identities become more accepted. People still in the closet or deciding to take the plunge and come out clearly benefit...
View ArticlePride Month Preemptive: Dear Straight People, It’s Not About You
Embed from Getty Images — Pride month is a few weeks away. Every year. Every. Single. Year. Every year, National Coming Out Day is eventually appropriated by a small group of indignant straight people...
View ArticleA Gay Dad Shares the 9 Things You Do NOT Want to Do When Coming Out of the...
Rob Watson is a gay dad, and a man who knows what the coming out process is all about. He has learned it more from his mistakes than his wisdom. He shares the 9 biggest mistakes he made with you here....
View ArticleOn National ‘Coming Out’ Day
— October 11th is National “Coming Out” Day, a time to celebrate and reflect on the importance of visibility. Being out means walking through the world as one’s authentic self, to embrace the very...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Today’s National Coming Out Day
— I’ve never been one to celebrate, or really even acknowledge, “National Coming Out Day.” I came out years ago to the people closest in my life, overcame a few growing pains through the process, and...
View ArticleWhy Ellen Is Wrong
Last week, the LGBTQ+ community had three significant stories. ◊♦◊ One was Friday being National Coming Out Day, a day for LGBTQ+ persons to tell whomever they please about their sexual orientation and...
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