#NCOD

[eighteen-gnomes]

Happy national coming out day. For anyone who needs to hear it:

If you came out today, I am so proud of you. You did something really brave and difficult. I am wishing you nothing but joy.

If you didn't come out today, I am proud of you too. No matter what the reason is, whether you are already out, or not at all. Whether you're scared, unsure, in danger, not ready, or just not feeling it, I am so proud of you.

You are a part of this community, you are loved and this day is yours, for you to participate as much or as little as you choose. The decision to come out is yours alone, and it can happen today, any day, or never, however you feel about it you are valid.

If you came out and it was a positive experience, know I am smiling with you. If you came out and it wasn't what you'd hoped, know you can tell me and I will accept you.

[incorrectpowerrangersquotes]

Lord Zedd: Sorry, so this - this goo i-is transgender?

Zayto: The goo is transgender.

Slyther: Isn't that incredible?

[aroaceaunt]

National Coming Out Day

To those who are questioning their sexuality, gender identity or expression, your introspection in finding yourself is amazing. I am so proud of you.

To those who are in the closet, the bravery you show by knowing yourself while keeping your secret is fantastic. I am so proud of you.

To those who are partially out or newly out, the courage you show is powerful. I am so proud of you.

To those who are living their best lives, you are an icon. We look to your strength and are inspired. I am so proud of you.

[skyler10fic]

Happy Coming Out Day to the website that helped me figure out I'm queer in the first place and through my journey ever since

[saffyink]

a very personal comic about a very personal journey.

inspired by heartmush on twitter

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

If anyone needs any extra support today because they came out and it went poorly or because they can't come out, PLEASE send me an ask or a DM!!!

[idyllicdyl]

Happy National coming out day!

Shoutout to the first person I came out to (a few months ago) aka my best friend aka the only person irl that knows I’m trans

Good luck to anyone who plans on coming out!

[binarybreak]

Hey y'all not to be gay on the podcast channels, but I did natal charts for our characters and TODAY IS CATE'S BIRTHDAY! 🎁 🎉 🎂 🎈 ⚽

It's also NCOD. Funny coincidence, that.

[nyxsgrove]

Witchcraft and Sexuality

*Previously written in 2022*  Hello everyone! Hopefully everyone is enjoying their weeks so far. Today’s post is honestly going to be a little awkward and slightly difficult for me to write… I wanted to write about sexuality and witchcraft today. Especially because while I am writing this, it is currently National Coming Out Day.   For those of you that don’t know, National Coming Out Day is…

[jtem]

Jussie Smollett

Anyone have a contact?

We'll pay for a hotel room if he'd attend the Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival.

There's only 3-star near the theater but if he could live with that...

If he had a short film, we'd DEFINITELY want to play it. Then he can do a Q&A. His rules. We can even require that people write out their questions in advance, if he wanted...

Would he be controversial? Of course. But not much. A whole HEAPING LOAD of controversy has cropped up since his troubles. And we're a small festival. So if there's a problem we're the place to have it, and if there's no problem then he's BACK!

October 7-11 & 13.

He can pick his night. I would not recommend Friday. It's National Coming Out Day and that might seem appropriate but, we booked the smallest theater for that night!

Oh we could like find something bigger if he really wanted to play October 11...

All dates flexible.

Jussie Smollett

Pass it along!

[ivygorgon]

National Coming Out Day

(it's ok if you're not ready.)

A day to celebrate the act of coming out, founded in the United States by gay rights activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O' Leary on 1988 in Washington, DC, United States.

Text from NCOD wiki page;

National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11, to support anyone "coming out of the closet".[1] First celebrated in the United States in 1988, the initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, and the emphasis on the most basic form of activism being coming out to family, friends and colleagues, and living life as an openly lesbian or gay person.[2] The founders' belief was that homophobia thrives in an atmosphere of silence and ignorance and that once people know that they have loved ones who are lesbian or gay, they are far less likely to maintain homophobic or oppressive views.

[lgbtally4ever]

[itgetsbetterproject]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Call for writing submissions: we want your queer back-to-school blogs! 🍎✏️

We're looking for new (very gay) guest blogs for the blog at itgetsbetter.org relating to the back-to-school season!

Are you an LGBTQ+ high school student, recent grad, GSA advisor, or queer teacher?

What's something you want fellow LGBTQ+ students to know going into this next school year? How about a queer school survival guide with tips for navigating bullying and bathroom bills, making new friends, or finding trusting adults? Or maybe the story of "that one teacher" who made a difference for you?

You can read the guidelines, see example blogs, and submit a piece here (accepted submissions are paid)!

Plus see other topics we'd like to highlight soon, including:

❤️ Hispanic Heritage Month

🧡 Bi Awareness Week

💛 LGBTQ+ History Month

💚 NCOD

💙 Indigenous Peoples' Day

💜 Ace Awareness Week

[chrissorensen]

I.Den.t.T, They/Them. The latest from the Pronoun Project, an ongoing portrait series using light and lens to abstract and defocus the body. I.Den.t.T is an award-winning queer artist and NCOD event producer spreading queer joy through art.

[palephx]

Saturdudes, 10/14/23. "NCOD Should Be a FPS" Edition.

[queerunpleasantdanger]

About a decade ago, I walked back into a resource center I'd left a year or so earlier because it was full of people who fucking hated each other. I was invited, almost immediately, to their national coming out day celebration and to a support group for transgender people by another trans woman. The support group itself was boring, but afterwards, we all got dinner, and I felt alive for the first time in years after being part of a community where I felt like I actually fit. At the NCOD event, I would do something incredibly hard for me (tabling) with people I would make friendships with that would help me make my way through my remaining years at community college. I'm so fucking glad I walked into that resource center, because I was suicidal mere weeks earlier, and I would be connected, proud, and happy mere months later, finding a community of trans, gay, bi, pan and queer people who would make my life into something worth living. On days like this, I remember what it was like to be so lonely I felt like I was dying, and writing this (a couple weeks ago when you're reading this, I scheduled this post to see it again closer to a decade after the event) am so, so very glad to be alive. To community, to loving each other, and to life!