National Coming Out Day: Why it's important
Today is National Coming Out Day. There really aren't any festivities or anything and there isn't a lot of recognition of the holiday (I doubt anyone takes the day off). However, the day is important...
View ArticleSome thoughts on turning 25
At 3:15am, eastern, I'll be turning 25. And for some reason, living a quarter century has made me a little bit introspective. Forgive me if this diary doesn't seem to flow or make sense. Anyway,...
View ArticleHappy National Coming Out Day
Today is the 11th National Coming Out Day I've celebrated as an "out" gay man, and while that's been an important part of my personal growth, it places a distant second from my other "coming out"...
View ArticleWGLB TV NEWS: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
On Oct. 11, 1987, half a million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. This was the second such demonstration in our nation’s capital and the first display of...
View ArticleNational 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...
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