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For #NationalComingOutDay, I'm going to share one of my favorite YouTube trends stories. It's about Coming Out videos. We can start with one of this year's biggest, which is from @JaidenAnimation and features her coming out as aroace (aromantic asexual).
It joins the list of our all-time ten most-viewed Coming Out videos as the first aroace coming out video. The next most-recent entry is NikkieTutorials' in which she came out as trans. When you look at the list of videos, you see a range of sexual orientations and identities.
And if you look at the videos' content, you see a progression from basic direct-address vlogs to more elaborate productions that reflects the growth, evolution and creative maturity of the creator community. (btw, that was a new chart! We'll update the trends site with it)
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When I was 5 they asked me if I was a girl. When I was 8 they started calling me gay. When I was ten I heard the f-slur for the first time. When I was 12 the gym teacher told me to stop running "like that".
When I was in high school the administration told me if I wanted the bashing from the other kids to stop I should stop acting "that way". When I was 19 the first manager I met with suggested I take voice lessons so I wouldn't sound "...you know".
When I did my first play a New York Times review referred to me as "mannered, but perhaps that's what the director intended." My first LA agent told me there was a concern I was "too gay for Los Angeles" and should consider going back to New York.
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On #NationalComingOutDay, I'm proud to share my coming out story. Like so many in the LGBTQ+ community, coming out wasn’t an easy thing to do. My family was traditional and conservative. Being gay in my family wasn’t something that you mentioned out loud or celebrated.
But my family, like many families, grew to accept who I was. Who I loved didn’t change who I was as a person. It didn’t change the things I liked to do, and it didn’t change the goals I had for my life.
The beauty of America is its freedom and the promise that you can do anything you want regardless of your race, sex, country of origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
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1/? It is #NationalComingOutDay and that marks one year of being out in academia.

But coming out is a process that continues over the years. You come out over and over again, deciding when to bring people in on that, explaining yourself to people again, etc.

So some thoughts!
2/? First thought. Coming out is this weird act of protest in a world that thinks of us as other. We throw ourselves out into the world to say "hello, I am here, this is who I am, get over it."

Because, to flip the script, we don't have big moments to announce we're straight.
3/? I still think Coming Out is powerful, but it is worth remembering that this is a framing in which we are considering how LGBTQ folk are the outlier in the systems in place.

Thankfully, GenZ looks 50% queer, so I think this will change with time. Hurrah!
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Remembering Peter Hujar on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Berg, 1986
"His pictures share, in place of a style, an unfailing rigor that can only be experienced, not described." - Peter Schjeldahl Image
Peter Hujar
Paul Thek, Nude, Astride Zebra, 1965 Image
Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, 1975
"He lived in different worlds, he touched many people, and his work, like so few photographs, can’t be forgotten and becomes even deeper and more compelling over time."
- Nan Goldin Image
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My coming out story as the first openly gay Saudi man:
My name is Abdulrahman Alkhiary and I was born by the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. Education was a top priority to my parents, and despite my #ADHD and #Dyslexia, I succeeded in schools when we moved to the United States.
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While at Kansas State University I excelled socially and scholarly, joining many organizations related to my Political Science major, and working as a legislative administrative assistant for a Kansas State Senator and a consultant to the Riley County Police Department.
On February 22 while living with my parents in Manhattan, Kansas, they asked me to a private meeting. This was odd because just a week earlier my parents and I met, and it was uncommon for us to meet two weeks in a row, so I became nervous. #NationalComingOutDay
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Happy #NationalComingOutDay 🌈🥳

Today's a day to celebrate coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer!

We love you❤️

Let's take a look at some coming out stories👇
Lauren Burgess realised she was gay at 35 so she quit her job, left her husband, and moved out of her home so she could travel the world and explore her sexuality🌏
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Eli called it 'one of the wildest moments of my entire life' when his dad came out as gay, almost 10 years after he had🌈
trib.al/ZuORA97
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A quick thread about #Superman coming out as bisexual. As a general rule it annoys me that people who know nothing about comics drive discourse about a format they haven't read in 20 years but people are shocked or supportive - I'm cautiously optimistic
Jon Kent is Clark Kent's son from various merged realities & the potential future superman. This matters because while introducing new characters with queer identities is good its not as bold as having established characters come out *Ahem* Wonder Woman
The X-Man Ice-Man coming out after 50 years was a MUCH bigger deal and it forced bigots to reconsider just how "stable" sexuality is since Bobby dated alot in the 80s and 90s X-Books
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Another #WhenICameOut thread for #NationalComingOutDay

"When I came out the first time, I was a young, bisexual of man of 19, surrounded by a community that was thriving and vibrant. The historic Hotel Washington had not yet burned down, and I was saying 'queer' not 'bi'.

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"I would sneak into the bars of the Hotel Washington, from the scandalous Rod's to the upbeat New Bar. It was then that I first felt the joy of that community, but also first saw the schisms too. Yet we all wept when the Hotel burned down.

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ourliveswisconsin.com/wp-content/upl…
"I still remember the first time I watched Prince on MTV; I was wide-eyed and eight, and when he came out of the bathtub I knew, I just knew that 'I shouldn't be feeling like this!' Internalized homophobia came to me even before I knew what desiring a man meant.

#WhenICameOut /3
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Since it's #NationalComingOutDay - @NME lied about Morrissey's 1992 Madstock gig because Skrewdriver's roadie & ex National Front organizer, Nicky Crane had just come out as gay on a @Channel4 documentary about gay skinhead subculture called the Skin Complex.
Madness lead singer, Suggs, had been friends with Skrewdriver's lead singer, Ian Stuart Donaldson, before Skrewdriver rebranded as neo-Nazi in 1982 and Madness was rumoured to have a National Front following.
The National Front was outside the Madstock gig venue to attack an Irish Republican march. They were connected to Northern Ireland's protestant loyalists. Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair (below left) started his paramilitary career in the National Front.
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Today is #NationalComingOutDay, and I've been waiting all year to discuss some thoughts. I hate National Coming Out Day. 🧵
There are a few reasons why but the biggest is this: coming out day places all the responsibility on the queer person to come out, and none of the responsibility on cishet people to do better.
So if you're queer - I see you and I value you, whether you're out or not. You don't owe anyone information on your gender or sexuality. It's not "lying". Please don't feel pressure to come out until you're ready, really ready. I promise it's okay to wait if you're afraid.
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It’s #NationalComingOutDay, so we’re celebrating the stories of some well-known LGBTQI+ faces and exploring the ways in which they chose to show the world exactly who they are 🏳️‍🌈🧵
Judge @RobbieRinder chose to come out at the age of 22, in what he describes as a ‘soft process.’ 👨‍⚖️

‘I was partially motivated by not wanting to live a lie – a need to live honestly – and partially because I had fallen in love, albeit unrequitedly.’

metro.co.uk/2021/06/16/rob…
Strictly Come Dancing star @jojo_radebe credits his family in South Africa’s with allowing him to feel comfortable with his identity from an early age 🇿🇦

‘I am grateful they never imposed ideas about sexuality on me and I was allowed to just be a child.’

metro.co.uk/2021/06/15/joh…
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14 years ago today I was outed for being #bisexual and #polyamorous by a now defunct local Republican blog. Upset they weren’t getting more media attention they started sending my posts & photos to my board members & legislative leaders.

I quit my job when the press harassed me.
Because I deviated from the straight, monogamous norm, I was treated as a scandal per se. They felt free to dehumanize me, advocate for my children to be taken away from me and speculate wildly on who I had slept with. They constructed a tale where I traded sex for votes.
I was turning 29 in a few months and had a surprisingly successful legislative season as a lobbyist. I accomplished more in one year than anyone expected, including doubling the state’s moral obligation. I did it by being honest, sincere & transparent.
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It’s late but I thought I would do a mini-thread on how I chose my pronouns in different languages for #NationalComingOutDay ! I speak English, French (slowly), and am learning Arabic. 1/7
In English, I chose they/them because it is the gender neutral option that feels the most natural on my tongue. I am genderfluid but my gender hovers vaguely around agender half the time so I feel most comfortable with one gender neutral set of pronouns. 2/7
In French, I chose iel and il. Iel is the gender neutral neo-pronoun, which I love, but it does not have very widespread usage among non-trans people as far as I know. There is also the problem that you still have to chose m/f adj+verb agreement to go along with iel. 3/7
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I was a gay kid growing up in South Dakota who said the words, “I’m gay” for the first time while riding my dad’s John Deere so no one would hear me.

13-year-old me back in 1996 couldn’t dream of a world where our lives and our love would be part of the American conversation.
Coming out to others happened in stages. A crush on a guy from the tennis team turning into my first boyfriend.

My first boyfriend turned into a question from my sister while she was brushing her teeth:

“Are you dating a guy on the tennis team?” “Yes. Pass the toothpaste.”
I got my start in public service advocating to make marriage equality the law of the land (before it was cool).

When I first ran for State Rep, it seemed I was too young, too gay, and too “not from here." I don’t remember its origin, but it's the story I started telling myself.
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I spent much of my time in Republican politics in the closet.

In 2010, on a high-profile Senate race, I received an anonymous email threatening to out me.

It was designed to terrify. And it was one of the most physical experiences of fear I've had.

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When the terror subsided, I resolved never to allow my own fear to become a weapon in someone else's hands.

I came out several weeks later, on Thanksgiving, and I now look back at that moment with profound gratitude for the way it changed my life.

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Tragically, many LGBTQ+ people still live in fear—of far worse things than emails.

And for some, the decision to come out can still have devastating, even deadly, consequences.

Despite our progress, we still have much work to do.

#NationalComingOutDay 3/
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how it started: how it’s going: ImageImage
Speaking of #NationalComingOutDay ...

I am so grateful, every day, that I have been given my unique queerness. Alas, this year, my theater-going has been limited — but, as always, we adapt. For ex, I’ve joined some of those queer friends in a remote DND game since this summer!
I am so grateful, also, that I’ve had mentors and friends who taught me that it was OK to be me, as queer as I am and with the varied interests I have, and that I’d find other queer people with similar interests to help me along the way and who I’d try to help along their way.
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Coming out is different for queer and trans South Asians. We often don't have the language to share our truths with our families, and the Western, white narrative of a one-time convo often doesn't hold true for us. Here are some resources for my SA fam on #NationalComingOutDay:
First, some reading. Here is @LakshmiGandhi on what makes coming out language so complicated for Asian communities:
nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…
And here's the one and only @thefawz sharing her own experience with the limits of the coming-out narrative growing up in a Muslim, Pakistani family.
them.us/story/coming-o…
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We’re celebrating #NationalComingOutDay with the different LGBTQ+ flags. Have questions about the flags? Ask and our friends at @PFLAG can help answer them!
The Transgender pride flag consists of five horizontal stripes: two light blue, two pinks, and one white.
The Pansexual pride flag consists of three horizontal stripes: one pink, one yellow, and one light blue.
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My cousin found these under some floorboards when renovating a new house. If anyone recognises them and would like them back, please drop me a DM. A collection of old black a...
If you’ve ever found such a stash hidden away, and I know a lot of you have because you message me about them, do feel free to share. X
OK! There have been some major developments in this story.

1. The photographs were inside an envelope that had been posted through the mail. The date is the 1960s (exact date to follow)

So what you’re looking at here is an actual, analogue dick-pick.
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@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems At this juncture, it’s clear to explain
an old saw from Mike Parson’s campaign:
random rural yard signs to
applaud Mike’s designs to
continue his post-Greitens reign.
In this specimen Parson would take in
uninformed voters in County Macon. 1/2 🔥 #mogov 🗳️
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@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems The reality, though: far more grim
as school districts may soon sink, not swim
in each piteous scene
of a mass quarantine as
new cases exceed counties’ brim.
Yet the venue’s the same:
still in Macon. Why no
mask mandate? Parson’s mistaken.
2/2 🔥 #mogov 🗳️
@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems Yes; thank goodness the
National Guard, unlike Mike,
at this moment works hard
citizens to protect.
Parson’s lies we reject,
evidenced by his COVID scorecard.
Folks still ask: why no #MaskUp
mandate? Parson’s post outweighs
the #ShowMe State.

🔥 #mogov 🗳️
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