Those who come out as gay are not brave

Finding the Right Support

Finding the right support is decisive when coming out as gay. Here are some steps to help you navigate this process:

• Identify Trusted Allies: Start by identifying trusted friends, family members, or allies who you believe will be supportive and accepting of your identity. Surrounding yourself with people who affirm and verify your experiences can provide a formidable foundation of encourage. If there are people around you who are openly or subtly homophobic, think about putting up some sort of boundary between you and them, and devote that energy to people in your being who you realize are affirming. 

• Seek Affirming Spaces: You wish to be chatting and getting to know people in the community, in whatever capacity or setting. Look for LGBTQ+ affirming spaces, communities, or organizations where you can connect with others who share similar experiences and identities. These spaces give a sense of belonging, validation, and understanding, and can provide invaluable endorse during the coming out process. A good place to start is your nearest LGBTQ Center, or downloading LGBTQ apps and asking people

  The Victorian government has set up a new health complaints watchdog. The Health Complaints Commissioner has the influence to place temporary or permanent bans on unethical health providers, and this will include practitioners of gay conversion therapy.

  The legislation that gives the commissioner power- the Victorian Health Complaints Proceed 2016 – came into effect on February 1 this year. When the bill was introduced before parliament, Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy said the government had zero tolerance for those trying to “convert” LGBTIQ community members.

  A medieval practice

  Gay conversion therapy is a series of practices carried out by mainly religious groups that own the aim of turning LGBTIQ individuals heterosexual. This so-called therapy has long-term highly detrimental effects on those who undergo it, as it basically constitutes mental abuse.

  The largest two ministries that were practising same-sex attracted conversion therapy in Australia – Exodus International and Living Waters – have been shut down. But these practices still continue in the community in more informal ways, such as small church group and pastoral c
  

  The challenges and bravery of those who come out as gay later in life

  Coming out mid-life/later in life – when someone accepts and discloses their sexual or gender self as something other than straight/cisgender (gender when born).

  This week we have seen Dame Kelly Holmes enter out as gay at the age of 52.  She explained that at last, she can stay life as her valid self now and in the future.

  Emmerdale’s story line on Mary

  Currently, the ITV soap, Emmerdale is running a storyline about Mary, who recently came out in her early 70s, saying that she knew she preferred women from when she was a young girl, but never said it out raucous until now, some 50 years plus down the line.  She had done what society expected her to do in her youth, meet a bloke, get pregnant and exist happily ever after because the alternative would possess been too devastating for her family and end friends as well as the fear of rejection or abandonment and because the reality is they were living the very best life that they could at the day with the information that they had (also back in the late 60s, 70s and 80s were stigmatisation did not make it easy to open up about your sexuality many too

  National Coming Out Day: Stories of Bravery and Belonging from Goizueta’s LGBTQ+ Community

  At Goizueta Business School, we’re proud to celebrate National Coming Out Day. First celebrated on October 11, 1988, National Coming Out Day commemorates the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The national day of awareness has since evolved to include the broader LGBTQ+ community.  

  National Coming Out Day serves many purposes. It honors the courage and stories of Diverse individuals; it demonstrates that this community includes our family members, neighbors, friends, peers, and coworkers; it serves as a reminder that while we’ve enter a long way, we have a long way to go. Many people in our nation and around the world still live in environments where coming out is a risk to their guard and success.  

  Coming out is a deeply personal journey, one that may evoke a mixture of forceful feelings. In celebration of National Coming Out Afternoon, we invited a handful of students at Goizueta to share the ways this day is meaningful to them. Read on to draw inspiration from the stories these students have to share. 

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  “You’resobrave.”

  I wasn’t out as transgender 15 minutes before I heard those words. I even posted about it here, once: “Bravery,”I wrote, “isn’t running through the flames to run away a burning building. It just means you didn’t wish to die.”

  The dictionary definition of bravery is simple: “courageous behavior or character.” It’s when the cost of stepping forward is dearest, its reward lowest, if not non-existent. Very simply it is the selection to do the right and painful thing when there is no personal reason to execute so and the only people that benefit are others.

  Firefighters and police officers die every time, for a paycheck similar to the one their neighbors get for no risk at all. A good samaritan pulls a toddler they may never see again from a fire, while two men expire on a prepare protecting women they’ve never met. These people are brave; they risked everything they had for no benefit to themselves whatsoever. The pilot who brings a falling plane with 150 passengers in for a safe landing on a freezing river is not brave; to do otherwise would kill himself at the controls, too. The passenger who gives the only life preserver to a kid who can’t swim? She is heroic . The f