Ian Johnson, Out Now
October 13, 2007
TOPICS: Gay trends. Philadelphia gay judge. LGBT community market. National Coming Out Day. Gay community marketing. Coming Out Week. Gay and lesbian straight alliances in US campuses. Kentucky campus joins US trend to support gay and lesbian rights through gay and lesbian -- straight student alliance groups. Gay US market news. Gay Market News this week covered the annual October 11, National Coming Out Day with a report on the National Coming Out Day appointment of Philadelphia's first out gay male judge -- Judge Daniel Anders.
In some places in the US, National Coming Out Day is part of a broader coming out week.
In the mid 1970s, gay hero and openly gay San Francisco supervisor, Harvey Milk said at San Francisco gay pride parade: Come out! "Just come out! You will not believe how great it will make you feel to stop pretending." Milk was later assassinated, and the powerful importance of his call to come out every bit as strong today as it was back then.
I get paid to be a professional gay and lesbian marketing and communications professional, so being out as gay is a given for my career.
But for many lesbian and gay people working across the world, their sexuality is a secret they spend far too much time concealing.
Coming out is, for many people, a powerful liberator of freedom in how they feel about living their own lives.
To round out this US coming out week, we thought you would be pleased to learn more about the growing importance of Gay - Straight Alliances on school campuses across America.
This extract comes from University of Kentucky (the Kentucky Kernel no less!) where students have joined together in an ongoing trend for lesbian and gay students to group with their straight friends and colleagues to jointly further the advancement of equal rights and fair treatment for all students, irrespective of sexuality.
A great way to round up the National Coming Out Week of National Coming Out Day.
Students come out, support gay rights
University of Kentucky is celebrating the 19th annual National Coming Out Week with events encouraging awareness and tolerance of the gay community.
"Coming Out Week brings awareness to ongoing problems sexual minorities have in popular culture," said Mathias Detamore, marketing coordinator of OUTsource, UK's Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer Questioning Ally (GLBTQQA) resource center.
The center, which opened in April, offers educational resources and safe spaces for sexual minorities on campus, Detamore said.
Events in honor of Coming Out Day, which is held tomorrow and started in 1988, have gone on all week.
"(Coming Out Day) is a remembrance that sexual minorities have to go through a struggle," Detamore said.
"It's exciting that the university is having this," Detamore said. "We're starting to see some real positive change in the way sexual minorities are more easily integrating in the popular culture."
The week will conclude with state Sen. Ernesto Scorsone, D-Lexington, speaking prior to a showing of the film "The Times of Harvey Milk," which is the story of the openly gay San Francisco councilman who was murdered in 1978.
"The more people know about gay folks, the less discrimination there is against gay people," said Scorsone, who came out to the public four years ago.
Scorsone, who represents most of Fayette County, including University of Kentucky's campus, said coming out is one of the most important things a gay individual can do.
"Coming out is a very personal decision and no one can make that call for someone else," Scorsone said. "It is an individual decision and we have to respect that."
OUTsource, the Cats Den, Student Activities Board, the Student Center Film Series and the Gay-Straight Alliance sponsor the Coming Out Week events.
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