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#NationalComingOutDay

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#FordhamUniversity's #OfficeofMulticulturalAffairs (OMA) #Celebrates #LGBTQHistoryMonth

Fordham also acknowledged important #recognition days, #NationalComingOutDay and #InternationalLesbianDay, which occur as part of LGBTQ+ History Month.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #HigherEducation #Representation #Culture

thefordhamram.com/news/oma-cel

The Fordham RamOMA Celebrates LGBTQ+ History MonthFordham Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) celebrates October being LGBTQ+ History Month with a variety of programming. They collaborated with other Fordham organizations including Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) and the Pride Alliance. The programs are meant to celebrate and unite the queer community at Fordham.
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🏳️‍⚧️ The Notorious Kyo 🇵🇸

🥽this is some older queer generational information I am passing down. Liberals like to erase radical queer history .

#NationalComingOutDay started in 1988, during the late stages of the AIDS genocide, as a form of protest against homophobia.

Coming out as gay in the US at that time was at least as dangerous as it is today, and in many places significantly moreso because gay sex was illegal in many states due to anti-sodomy laws. The last of those laws was only struck down in the mid ‘oughts.

The root of it is the idea that the personal is political, so queer liberation began at home. The reason there is a day for it is because that allows people to co-ordinate coming out as a form of collective action so the same conversations were happening in many different families at around the same time.

Just as how #pride has been co-opted from a radical non-violent protest, so has coming out day.

And the thing is… if you understand non-violent protest, co-option is part of the protest

🏳️‍⚧️ The Notorious Kyo 🇵🇸

🥽the intent of coming out day is queer civil resistance.

Like a lot of civil resistance, the point is to demonstrate the injustice of the system by doing something that *should* be okay knowing that the response will be disproportionately violent.

So no. #nationalcomingoutday isn’t supposed to be a safe day of celebration. It is a form of co-ordinated protest.

Do *not* come out if you cannot endure the violence, and *never* pressure somebody to out themselves. It is *not* safe. That’s the point.

The Alchemist

Yesterday was National Coming Out Day. I meant to post, but my anxiety was high due to an unpleasant interaction with a local conservative candidate who came to my door.

Even though I lost most of my family when I came out and faced conversion therapy abuse, I have no regrets.

Coming out allowed me to experience unconditional deep love from another human. I don't think that would have happened if I didn't.

Do what's best for you, but make sure you're safe ❤️

#NationalComingOutDay#lgbtq
Daisy 🪺🔪📚

On this #NationalComingOutDay, I'm coming out as a mess.

Or, less flippantly, as a woman who is attracted to people, sometimes, very rarely, and most of those people are women and all of those people are ones I've been able to form deep, secure friendships with prior to realizing I'm attracted to them. Whatever the sexuality for that is, that's what I am. There aren't always good labels for human experiences, and I'm finally learning to lean into the uncertainty and discomfort of that truth and just be. It's fine if I can't pin it down to a single all-encompassing word. I am who I am and that's enough.

I still love labels and find great comfort and validation in them, so it's been difficult to accept that sometimes the right ones just don't exist. But life is short and I could spend it worrying this problem in endless circles or I could spend it loving people and letting people love me and I know which one I would prefer. Besides, I'm tired of feeling like I'm betraying an entire demographic when I think I've gotten it right and then realize eventually that I got it wrong again.

Anyway National Coming Out Day is a concept I have beef with, but for those who find it important, I'm glad it exists. For those who find it stressful or restrictive or saddening because they either can't or don't want to come out, I see you and value you and affirm you, as always. You belong here as much as anyone who's loud and proud about their sexuality. Tomorrow the world goes on.

Ben

Today is #NationalComingOutDay — and although I've been out for the majority of my life now, I still find myself routinely having to decide if I'm willing to be "out" in any given context. A lot of conversations are just easier if I don't mention my partner, for instance.

Coming out is a lifelong activity, because the expectation remains that you're straight and cis. For my friends in the closet, I wish you well and hope you can be out in the future.

gene x

It's #NationalComingOutDay and there's a great episode of @kqedforum today about queer animal behaviour that's really great! oh and I am Aro and Ace! kqed.org/forum/2010101907428/t 💜🖤🩶🤍💚

www.kqed.orgThe Natural World is Queerer Than You Think | KQEDWhen a female clownfish dies, a male clownfish can switch sexes and reproduce with other females. Some morpho butterflies have one male wing, and one female. In some populations of giraffes, about 95% of sexual activity is homosexual. In his book, “A Little Queer Natural History,” science writer Josh Davis gives a sampling of the enormous variety of gender and sexual behaviors in the plant, fungal and animal world and the ways some scientists have twisted themselves into knots to find non-sexual
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AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

Oh hey, its #NationalComingOutDay and I randomly was just talking about 8th grade science class. So I'm gonna tell that story (sorry, I do think I've posted it before, so mute this if you've heard it already).

This isn't a story about coming out to anyone else. It's the story of coming out to myself, which IMO is the most important coming out you can do. Once you accept and learn to love yourself as you truly are, everything else flows downhill from that.

#Gay#LGBT#LGBTQIA
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justmichelle

#nationalComingOutDay I have been out for 30+ years but am now not as open about it. The reasons are many.

My job has me interacting with people who should know nothing about my personal life.

I am not in a local relationship. I have an LDR who no one here has met. (They do actually exist.)

Seen from the outside, the relationship doesn't look particularly queer. Trust me. It is.

I don't discuss my previous relationship. See first point.

None of that makes me any less queer.

Mark Tisdale Art 🏳️‍🌈

It's only my second #NationalComingOutDay but it's definitely better out than it was in the closet. I wrote an essay recently for my blog that addresses a question I was frequently asked about essentially 'what took so long.' I wrote about it because it was a question I struggled to answer for myself. Here's a snippet.

But whether you're "late" "early" or still not ready, live your best life and take care! ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🥳

#Gay#Queer#LGBTQ
SonicAlligator

Happy #nationalcomingoutday !

For people who don’t already know, I’m Queer, and polyamorous! I have a lovely husband (they’re not on Masto) and boyfriend (@adamcr )

Coming out often happens in stages and happens when it feels right. I’ve been through the process a few times as I grow and evolve as a person. For everyone who has come out, is thinking about it, if it’s not the right time, or wants to but can’t, we see you. 💖

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