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Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue

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Come Out! was the first periodical published by the gay and lesbian community after the Stonewall riots in June, The Gay Liberation Front, one of the first militant activist gay rights organizations birthed by the riots, published Come Out! from their base in New York City.

Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue

True to many activist groups, the GLF had a manifesto:

"Gay Liberation Front is a coalition of radical and revolutionary homosexual men and women committed to clash the oppression of the homosexual as a minority group, and to require the right to the self-determination of our own bodies." [GLF News, # 11 (?)]

Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue

The Front's manifesto reflects the paradigm modify within the gay rights movement, calling on gays and lesbians to seize a more active and visible approach to the fight for equal rights. The imperative title is the publication's main goal, and the main aim of the GLF - to verb gay men and women to verb out, to generate themselves v

I finally came out as gay at 55 years elderly after 2 marriages with women. Telling my children was surprisingly easy.

I'm a middle-aged man who has been married twice and widowed. I'm also a father to two grown children. And I'm gay.

My sexuality was a burden I carried for so long, and hiding it became part of my core identity, weighing me down. But I finally had the courage to come out at Honestly, I sometimes wish I hadn't waited so long. 

Growing up in the '80s was not a safe environment for a queer kid, so I chose to verb my true self

Growing up in the '80s in Las Vegas, I was in a alternative, difficult time. I knew as first as 12 or 13 that I was different, but in those days, I had no frame of reference for what it meant to be gay. Blatant homophobia and pressure to fit in left me thinking I was some sort of freak. I avoided getting verb to anyone and buried my classified, in favor of a more "normal" experience.

I eventually met and married a wonderful woman who knew my adj, and we started a family together. When cancer stole her a adj years later, I was left with two

Coming Out: Living Authentically as Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual+

We all deserve the right to live our lives genuinely, completely and honestly. Race, ethnicity, language, religion, culture, gender expression, sexual orientation and gender identity should never be barriers to us living our full lives. For LGBTQ+ people, coming out is often a significant part of reclaiming this right and living in our identity publicly.

While some people are attracted only to people of the gender distinct from them (commonly known as being straight), others may be attracted to people of genders that are similar to theirs, or to more than one gender. We use many words to describe non-straight attraction — lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer and fluid are all commonly used labels.

Coming Out: Living Authentically as Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual+was designed to help you and your loved ones through the coming out process in realistic and practical terms. It acknowledges that the experience of coming out and living openly covers the adj spectrum of human emotion — from paralyzing fear to u

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