Dignity, a lay movement of LGBT Catholics, families, and friends, began Solidarity Sunday in 1995 to make visible their opposition to anti-gay violence. Solidarity Sunday is always the Sunday before National Coming Out Day (October 7, 2001). Other Christian denominations have also adopted the tradition of Solidarity Sunday in both formal and informal ways. [...]
Some states have already received their reports from the 2000 Census. (Nationwide statistics are scheduled to be available in late August.) States are finding significant jumps in households that report same-sex partnerships compared to estimates a decade ago.
Some examples:
Delaware: From an estimated 212 households in 1990 to 1,868 in 2000 (Source: Associated Press, 6/13/2001)
Kansas: [...]
Article by Abigail Garner
I was five when my father left the house he and my mother had lived in and moved into his partner’s house just a couple of miles away. The following year, I was put in a support group at school for children whose parents were divorcing. It seemed that the facilitator’s goal [...]
In the May issue of OUT Magazine, Editor Brendan Lemon wrote about his very secretive 18-month relationship with a professional baseball player who is not out. He wrote about how challenging it is to be an openly gay man (heading up a national gay magazine, no less) while hiding this relationship from even his [...]
Written for National Coming Out Day 2000.
Article by By Abigail Garner
I was amazed to find out that more than 1,000 people attended the recent “ex-gay” conference hosted by Focus on the Family in Arden Hills. Despite the fact that ex-gay “reparative therapy” is not endorsed by any of the professional medical or mental health associations, each conference attendee paid $55 to [...]
What it means to “come out” as a family member, and how you have to come out over and over again…not just once. Written for National Coming Out Day 1999.