{"id":2022,"date":"2019-10-10T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivawellnessblog.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2019-10-16T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:49:57","slug":"reflections-on-national-coming-out-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivawellnessblog.com\/2019\/10\/10\/reflections-on-national-coming-out-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on National Coming Out Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Since 1988, National Coming Out Day has been a day to celebrate the visibility of LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two visionaries, a psychologist by the name of Robert Eichberg and activist Jean O’Leary proposed National Coming Out Day as a way to celebrate, and highlight, LGBTQ identities. The movement was also designed to help increase the visibility of LGBTQ people, and in essence, help make these identities more mainstream. The hope was to increase positive reception from straight folks in connection with LGBTQ people, which seemed necessary at a time in which queer people lacked many legal protections that are offered today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems fitting then, that National Coming Out Day (October 11), comes just days after the Supreme Court heard cases from queer folks who argued cases aimed at increasing workplace protections for queer-identified people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming out isn’t an easy process for many people and it’s often a complicated process of first coming out to one’s self (and learning to accept one’s self) and then sharing that truth with other people in your life. For many, coming out offers a powerful psychological sense of freedom, but it can also come with other problematic consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n