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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 ...
National Coming Out Day has been observed annually on Oct. 11 since 1988. ... Paris Fashion Week - Menswear Fall-Winter 2023-2024 (JM Haedrich / SIPA via AP file)
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 ...
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.
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]
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.
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From LGBTQ reality star Jojo Siwa to nonbinary singer Demi Lovato and gay NFL player Carl Nassib, here are 21 notable coming-out stories so far this year. National Coming Out Day: 21 people who ...