It's National Coming Out Day!

[Impish]

It's here!  It's National Coming Out Day!

This year's theme is "Talk About It."

It's well known that straight people who personally know a GLBT person are more likely to support our struggle for full equality.  Visibility really does make a difference. 

To my GLBT brethren -- and yes, 'brethren' includes lesbians! -- let's all come out to at least one more person today.  We could tell an acquaintance or wear a Rainbow pin or pink triangle or relevant T-shirt.  Should a stranger be kind to us, simply say "You were kind to a gay (or lesbian or bisexual or whatever) person today."

To the non-gay Bettermost members, you can join in too.  Raise the topic with someone you know, or call up a GLBT friend and congratulate them, or contribute to any number of organizations that are working for a future in which GLBT citizens are welcomed and respected as equals.

Hooray! It's National Coming Out Day!

[nakymaton]

I'll just post the whole url and hope you can cut and paste it into your browser.

Lots of other people are in it, as well, but there is a BBM clip, and Anne talks about her brother.

http://a4.g.akamai.net/f/4/19675/0/newmill.download.akamai.com/19677/anon.newmediamill/comingout/2006/finecut.mp4

Edit: and the "Talk About It" photo gallery: http://www.hrcsnapshot.org/

[Andrew]

Here's the link to the same Human Rights Campaign video on youtube, in case that's simpler for anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Qep_w6GBE

[cmr107]

Tuesday night at my school (a small liberal arts college), in honor of National Coming Out Day, we had a guest speaker. Has anyone heard of Shane Windmeyer? He's written books about being out in college, specifically in Greek organizations. He was a really good speaker, very funny and engaging. He talked about coming out to his fraternity brothers. (They were more accepting than his family at first, which I thought was interesting.) It made me want to read his books, but unfortunately I won't have time to read anything that's not for school anytime soon. In case anyone wants to know, two of his books are 'Out on Fraternity Row' and 'Secret Sisters.'

[MaineWriter]

Thanks for sharing this, Courtney. I am not familiar with Shane, but the books and his experience sound interesting. My son is a freshman so I am interested in all things college, these days. LOL

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