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National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11 to support anyone "coming out of the closet". [1] First celebrated in the United States in 1988, the initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, and the emphasis on the most basic form of activism being coming out to family, friends, and colleagues, and ...
Although still named "National Coming Out Day", this day is observed in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland also on 11 October, and in the United Kingdom on 12 October. To celebrate National Coming Out Day on 11 October 2002, Human Rights Campaign released an album bearing the same title as that year's theme: Being Out Rocks.
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979) National Coming Out Day (established on Oct. 11, 1988) March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993) Millennium March on Washington (2000) National Equality March (2009) National Pride March (2017) List of protest marches on Washington, D.C.
National Coming Out Day: 11 October: 1988 [38] A day to celebrate the act of "coming out", i.e. when an LGBT person decides to publicly share their gender identities or sexual orientation. [39] National Coming out Day was founded in the United States by gay rights activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O' Leary on 1988 in Washington, DC, United States.
National Coming Out Day was founded on October 11, 1988 by LGBTQ activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Lear. The pair chose the date to honor the first anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington ...
National Coming Out Day has been observed annually on Oct. 11 since 1988. Founded by psychologist Robert Eichberg and activist Jean O’Leary, the day is meant to celebrate and promote the ...
Indian Coming Out Day is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on 2 July, to support anyone coming out of the closet. [1] This day is celebrated in commemoration of Naz Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi case which resulted in the decriminalisation of homosexual sexual activity in India by reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code by the Delhi High Court.
OutFest Philadelphia is one of the LGBT Pride Events associated with National Coming Out Day. [1] It is an annual event taking place in the heart of Philadelphia's gay village in Washington Square West (historically known as the Gayborhood in Philadelphia) and attracts over 15,000 people. It takes place every year in mid-October. [2]