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Nine things NOT to do when you come out of the closet
Coming out is the process where an individual becomes more honest about who they are. Here are 9 pitfalls to avoid.
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Today is National Coming Out Day
Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day — the internationally observed day to celebrate coming out and to raise awareness of the LGBT community and LGBT civil rights movement.
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Minnesota college student wants everyone to know she really hates gays
LGBT student groups and gay-straight alliances in high schools and colleges across the country often sell T-shirts for National Coming Out Day to raise funds and spread awareness about the LGBT community, but one student at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN., decided to use that day to spread a bigoted, hateful message…
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Ann Coulter thinks family rejection of LGBT youth is a joke
Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter decided last night to make a joke about family rejection of LGBT youth. … There was a time in our culture’s history when, if thousands of LGBT kids were to come out on the same day, the next week genuinely would be exactly what Ann describes, all across the country…
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James Clementi, off-Broadway cast of ‘Bare’ encourage gay teens to come out
Growing up in Ridgewood, N.J., James Clementi said he did not know of any gay people. And while he did suspect that his younger brother Tyler was also gay, he kept his own sexual orientation a secret from his family for another seven years — even during the months after his brother’s well publicized suicide two years ago.
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‘The Cross in the Closet’ — A straight Christian lives ‘openly gay’ for a year
As the LGBT community marked “National Coming Out Day” this week, there is one story that stands out in its uniqueness. Timothy Kurek, a straight man who said he was brought up to believe that homosexuality was a sin, decided that he would explore that what it would be like to be a gay man for a year…
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Coming Out: It will change your life
Life as a homosexual isn’t an easy life. From the time you know you’re gay until the moment you say out loud to the world around you: “I’m gay” could be 10 years, 15 years 30 years or in my case, 50 years. Some people never find the courage to say it out loud and live their lives hidden in shame and denial…
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National Coming Out Day: Achieving progress through visibility
On our road to equality, perhaps we’ll meet a day when “coming out” becomes a thing of the past. There will be no perception of difference, no fear, no worry and no anxiety. No declarations, no announcements, no revelations need be made. Nothing is questioned or second-guessed…
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Coming Out: ‘I am happy with my life and to me, that’s all that matters’
I came out to my family as lesbian. My family are hardcore Baptists, Christians, and not only didn’t believe me — my mother, a Registered Nurse kept telling me, “It’s a phase, it’s a phase, you’ll grow out of it.” But they didn’t accept it, or me, for that matter.
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Coming Out in this country is something which has changed a great deal since I was a kid. For many young people today (though certainly not all), the process has become far less traumatic. The act of telling a friend or family member that you’re gay is now frequently met with a “so?” and a “cool, let’s go to a gay bar!”