National Coming Out Day Celebrated
By Madhusmita, Gaea News NetworkMonday, October 11, 2010
LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- With six university students taking their own lives owing to the constant taunts they faced in the school underscored the difficulties the gays faced after they came out about their sexual preferences. Yesterday, National Coming Out Day was celebrated all across United States to celebrate the pride of coming out and it was an internationally observed coming out day where everyone discussed about gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, transgender issues. The day was celebrated for the LGBT community and they people who loves them, AC Stokes, the director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs for UF said to a reputed media source.
National Coming Out Day is celebrated by the members of the LGBT community and their supporters on October 11 every year and it is observed in United Kingdom today. There were workshops, speak-outs, rallies and events nationwide to celebrate the pride about their own orientation. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends club president Duke Lambert was upright while he spoke about the gay and lesbian issues in the nation. He seemed excited when he said that the people who openly come out about their orientation are “battered” by people so much that they lose confidence in themselves after coming out and lose faith in their community as well.
National Coming Out Day saw an open environment for the people who shared their story of coming out as they never got a platform to speak about it before. Referring to Norman’s Zach Harrington and New Jersey native Tyler Clementi, Duke Lambert said that if the LGBT community try to hide or pretend everything is going smoothly and do not recognize the accidents that are happening in the society, then they are not honest in their efforts.
