Why am I out?
1) Integrity. You cannot be in the closet without lying, either implicitly or explicitly
2) Community. After a lifetime of not fitting in, I have found a home among people who love me for exactly who I am — and I love them for being who they are.
3) Politics. To quote Greta Christina: “Very early in the LGBT movement, it became clear that coming out is the most powerful political act gay people can take. Consistently, polls show that the single factor most likely to make people support gay rights is whether they know a gay person personally. (Or, to be more accurate — whether they know that they know a gay person.)”
1) Integrity. You cannot be in the closet without lying, either implicitly or explicitly
2) Community. After a lifetime of not fitting in, I have found a home among people who love me for exactly who I am — and I love them for being who they are.
3) Politics. To quote Greta Christina: “Very early in the LGBT movement, it became clear that coming out is the most powerful political act gay people can take. Consistently, polls show that the single factor most likely to make people support gay rights is whether they know a gay person personally. (Or, to be more accurate — whether they know that they know a gay person.)”
