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October 11: National Coming Out Day 20 Years Since the March on Washington National Coming Out Day is observed on October 11 by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities and their allies. It is highly encouraged for participants in this movement to wear identifying symbols, such as the pink triangle, the Greek letter lambda, and rainbows, in jewelry and on their clothing, to demonstrate their presence in all walks of life, all ages and all ethnic groups.
The day was founded by Dr. Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary in 1988, in celebration of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which 500,000 people marched on Washington, DC, USA, for gay and lesbian equality. National Coming Out Day events are aimed at raising awareness of the LGBT community among the general populace in an effort to give a familiar face to the LGBT rights movement. In the United States, the Human Rights Campaign manages the event under the National Coming Out Project, offering resources to LGBT individuals, couples, parents and children, as well as straight friends and relatives, to promote awareness of LGBT families living honest and open lives. Candace Gingrich became the spokesperson for the day in April 1995. Despite its name, National Coming Out Day is observed worldwide. If you haven't come out today would be a good day. Today would also be a good day to remeind people why you came out if you all ready have. Real progress in all movements, Isn't made by lobbyist or national groups. Change is made on an individual level. My family wasn't the most gayfriendly family before I came out. Now my parents and my aunts and uncles are some of the biggest straight supporters I know of the gay community. It's these friends and family who change their minds about gay people and what it means to be gay that make the changes. If we don't share our stories and sturggles with the people we know, we can't get them to change their minds. Change I honestly believes starts at home. Change starts with me. When I took my vows to serve my Dieties, my Sisters and my community I believed that through my simple actions of standing up for myself and what I believed was right I could change the world. Just looking back at the change in my family in the 7 years since I came out to them I can see that it was true. If you are still in the closet know that there are people out there to support you, if you are out I applaud you for being true to yourself. If you are a straight ally I bow in your presence because with out your support we wouldn't have the rights we do today. Be proud of the the statement of being out! Together we can achieve the impossible. In Love In Light In Joy Sister Iona Dubble-Wyde Asylum of the Tortured Heart Incorperated The San Diego Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence To Promugulate Universal Joy and Expiate Stigmatic Guilt
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 He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
(George Eliot) the video for the above... 
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 "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"-Dr Seuss
Pain is something to carry, like a radio...You should stand up for your right to feel your pain- Jim Morrison | |
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Preach it, Sister!  | |
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This brought a tear to my eye.  I'd be honored to meet you the next time I'm in SD!
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INSATIABLE said: This brought a tear to my eye.
I'd be honored to meet you the next time I'm in SD!
it would be my pleasure. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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