National Coming Out Day: 20 years
National Coming Out Day began twenty years ago, on the anniversary of the second Gay & Lesbian March on Washington. The 1987 march was flanked by police in rubber gloves, as if they were going to...
View ArticlePalin rejects gay Coming Out Day proclamation request
This diary is cross posted to my blog, where I've joined the call to action to gay and our allies to contact Palin's Alaska office and complain!
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If not now, when?
Last Tuesday Bloomfield College held its yearly convocation, a salute to the beginning of a new school year...which happens around Midterm Week each year for some indiscernible reason. Or speaker was...
View ArticleTell your Coming Out stories?
I've shared my coming out story many times. There is a copy of it here. It's National Coming Out Day today, one of the few GLBT days of significance. Last night I came up with an idea (if not now,...
View ArticleI'm gay.
rserven has asked for coming out stories, given that today is National Coming Out Day. I've told some of my story here on Daily Kos before, but I've never diaried fully just about it, so today of any...
View ArticleMy "coming out" story (circa 1990)
Before I launch into my story, let me just say this to anyone who happens to stumble upon this diary and who also happens to be feeling a little claustrophobic in the closet: happy National Coming Out...
View ArticleBecause it is marriage, damn it!
Calling it a civil union, or being willing to allow the gays to pay for a lawyer to draw up contracts to protect their families is as 'civil' as asking us to sit at the back of the bus, or drink from...
View ArticleComing-Out Anecdote From an Immigrant
As an immigrant to the U.S., I have a somewhat different story to tell. A quarter century ago when I was applying for a green card (permanent residency), I was still in the closet. I had known I was...
View ArticleComing Out Day: I'm Not Gay
In fact, nothing on the GBLT spectrum describes me. If it weren't for some personal issues about what the Southern Baptist Convention officially sees as the role of woman in the world, I would be their...
View ArticleYou can thank us on National Coming Out Day: Oppose California's Prop 8
(A tale of two maps)I decided to have some fun.Here's how my fun begins, and here's the question (just for giggles) I'm having fun with.What would the results of the election look like, were it held...
View ArticleAll I want to do is marry my girlfriend.
I haven't been out very long, in the relative scheme of things. Only came out to my parents about four years ago after knowing for at least ten that I was bisexual. Compared to others my coming out...
View ArticleHow I Came Out
You all know I'm gay. Many of you have put my diaries about marriage equality on the Rec List (including the one about my wedding back on June 17th). I write regularly on GLBT topics, and it's almost...
View ArticleGay small business coming out
I'm going to tell you about how equality matters for business in one way--I'm sure there are others. But in this case it is because of health insurance.Sure, health insurance is a giant problem on a...
View ArticleAnother gay Mormon
These are my efforts to reconcile who I am and where I come from. In honour of National Coming Out Day, I am presenting my own story of coming to terms with being gay in the context of being a member...
View ArticleShout It Loud, Out And Proud!
Today is National Coming Out Day. There is apparently a meme going in which gay Kossacks post their own coming out stories. This is mine.
View Article"...but you're my daughter, and I love you."
Angry. That's all I can say right now. I'm angry. The world seems to be saying "if they kill you, we'll prosecute them, but you still can't live like the rest of us."I'm angry because I could be the...
View ArticleMy mom tried to pray away the gay
But not out of me. See, my mom is what you might call an evangelical in the truest sense of the word. An Okie from Chickasha, she played piano and organ for the church services. Her music studies...
View Article"So, are you gay?""I ... don't know."
"National Coming Out day is not about my story. It is not about all of the stories that you've heard today. National Coming Out day is for all those kids out there- and quite a few adults, to be sure-...
View ArticleComing Out Day: Now I'm Scared
I know I already wrote a diary for rserven's Coming Out Day celebration thing, but I found out something after everyone had moved out to fresher postings that matters.See, I found out about what...
View ArticleMy Coming Out - Not Awful
Be gentle, this is my first diary.Since it seems to be the thing to do today, I'll tell my coming out story. It involves very little drama, but that in itself might be instructive.
View ArticleFor Coming Out Day, How I know homosexuality is not a CHOICE
This is a very personal diary and not a story I've told to many. It wasn't until the last couple of years that I told it to ANYONE. But I know from personal experience that being homosexual is not a...
View ArticleGay Thoughts from a Straight Dad on National Coming Out Day, Take Two
"More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and...
View ArticleStraight man's thoughts on friends on National Coming Out Day
This probably won't be a long diary, so apologies in advance if it's less than substantial. I have been reading all of the coming out stories on here throughout the day and it reminded me of my...
View ArticleMy NCOD diary
I was encouraged by reading all the many National Coming Out Day diaries - from lbgt folks, and also from straight supporters! My story is fairly typical of gay folk who came out in the mid-1980's -...
View ArticleComing Out is a Lifelong Process
Okay, okay. I said in a comment earlier that I'd decided to ditch my own coming out story because it had gotten too convoluted and I figured I would just latch on and comment on what others had...
View ArticleIf I could really "come out" I would
I am a lesbian. I say this publicly. I live publicly as a lesbian. So far so good.But I am in the closet.
View ArticleMy Story
I would like to applaud everyone who wrote a diary on National Coming Out Day yesterday. Some of the stories were inspiring, some were emotionally wrenching, mine is neither.But it is my hope that by...
View ArticleWGLB TV NEWS: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are! (Act II)
Happy belated National Coming Out Day, which was celebrated last weekend, coinciding with the March for Equality. This year we will revisit the coming out stories we published here last year to...
View ArticleRutgers paper exploits gay suicide to push do-nothing agenda
After Tyler Clementi took his own life in the aftermath of a extraordinarily cruel act of bullying, you might think the real victim was Tyler. You might also think the young GLBT people still living...
View ArticleSharing Our Coming Out Stories
It arrives every October...like clockwork. It's National Coming Out Day. I have posted a diary as a place where people can share their stories if they wanted too three times since I became a member...
View ArticleThe Paladino Homophobic Turd Dropped Right on Coming Out Day
"...And I don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option. It isn't. (APPLAUSE)"
View ArticleVisibility = Equality. Come Out, Come Out... Where ever you are!
Yes, it's Columbus day, but it's also National Coming Out Day!I have read so much in the news of tragic teen suicides, incredibly awful bullying, beatings, torture, and hideously regressive rhetoric...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day: I Am Polyamorous
Hi, I'm Killer of Sacred Cows.I'm a 39-year-old, high-Kinsey bisexual queer. I'm a man married to another man. All of you know this. You saw my wedding when it happened in June 2008. But there's...
View ArticleThe Washington Post's false equivalence
Yesterday I wrote about the Washington Post publishing an article from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. The article used bogus research and made unfounded and really horrendous claims about...
View ArticleNJ-7: Support Ed Potosnak NOW! (Updated)
As a volunteer for Ed Potosnak in New Jersey's 7th Congresional District I felt bad I wasn't feeling well enough to be at campaign HQ doing phone banking today.Then I came on Daily Kos and did a search...
View ArticleCelebrating Keith Haring
Although LGBT History Month is over, there are still many individuals who need to be recognized and celebrated. Today I would like to honor and pay tribute to Keith Haring. Haring was one of the best...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day: What a Difference Five Years Makes
I remember the August 2009 day fairly well. I was back home finally after a very long first year of law school. It was a typical Southern California day, bright, warm, temperate without any humidity,...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day: Still Not Gay, But I Have A Question Anyway
I've got a question for the local QUILTBAG community, and while posting this early may technically be jumping ahead of everyone else this year, I figure there's gotta be someone else here dealing with...
View ArticleA Personal Story for National Coming-Out Day
Gay people are evil. Not bad or misguided, but evil. What they do, male or female, is not only disgusting but a one-way ticket to burn in hell for eternity. Gay "rights" is a meaningless phrase,...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day: The Importance of Being Visible
October 11 marks National Coming Out Day. For those of you who had any questions regarding my sexual orientation, allow me to put all questions to rest. I’m a very proud gay man. One might ask, so...
View ArticleMomentary Pain, Long-term Gain: A Diary for National Coming Out Day
So there I was, standing on the altar. Swaying back and fourth anxiously as the clergy read the passage: “Christian marriage is between a man and a woman.”I felt a pang. To me it sounded like a...
View ArticleI'm coming out; I want the world to know.
October 11 is designated in the United States as National Coming Out Day. This day is set aside to encourage the silent among us to tell those around them that they can't object to "the gay" without...
View ArticleA Short Break from Thinking About the Shutdown: It's Natl Coming Out Day!
The shutdown's got me feeling a little down (except the recent polling news; that was some necessary silver lining), so I found this video a welcome change in pace. Inspiring and up-lifting, it was...
View ArticleHappy National Coming Out Day!
Today is October 11, 2014. It's National Coming Out Day. Happy day to everyone. There's been quite a lot of good advancement in the cause of equality this past week, and one of the most important...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day - New York Fire Department releases great "It Gets...
Today is National Coming Out Day in the U.S. as you may already know. National Coming Out Day can be a day when some people decide to come out of the closet, but it's not really meant for that...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day 2016
It’s mid-afternoon of National Coming Out Day and I’ve yet to see a story on the topic. So I guess I’m elected. Following is what began as a comment in this morning’s Cheers & Jeers, combined with...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day
It happens semi-regularly. I’ll be in the middle of a conversation with someone — in class, at work, wherever — and make an innocuous reference to “this guy I dated” or something similar. Most of the...
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Top Comments: National Coming Out Day +1 (Featuring a Comic Strip!)
So I’m a day late. So sue me.For some years, I have been thinking about telling my coming-out story. It happened later in my life than it generally happens to most people, and now 25 years have...
View ArticleYou don't have to wait for someone to come 'out' to you to be a good ally to...
While recognizing National Coming Out Day on Monday, Oct. 11, President Joe Biden called on the Senate to finally, finally, finally pass the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination on the basis of...
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