“With national headlines regarding transgender men and womenand federal and statewide changes to laws about LGBT workers, today’s national celebration of “coming out” signifies a particularly courageous moment for those in the LGBTQIA community.
National Coming Out Day celebrates those that have or may be struggling to come out as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer, according to the National Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
When was it first celebrated?
The day was originally celebrated on the anniversary of the National March on Lesbian and Gay Rights on Oct. 14, 1987. On that day, more than 500,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., holding up the now historic AIDS Memorial Quilt, covering the length of a football field, according to The AIDS Memorial Quilt website.”