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COMING OUT
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COMING OUT  Stonewall, a leading charity for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights, recently found that 81% of people in Britain would be comfortable if their grew up to be lesbian, gay or bisexual. The charity has just published a guide, So You Think Your Is Gay?, offering advice for parents on how to support their if they are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Stonewall is now handing out copies of its guide to local authorities, doctors, libraries and schools across Britain. Would you be happy for schools to use Stonewall’s guide to educate ? Coming out is a phrase describing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. In 1869, the German homosexual rights activist, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, pioneered the idea of coming out and advocated self-disclosure to homosexual men as a way of achieving emancipation. Coming out is probably shorthand for coming out of the closet. In the closet means being aware of but not wanting to reveal one’s sexuality or gender identity to the wider world. Coming out also possibly equates to the early twentieth century practice of coming-out debutante parties that were then popular in so-called high society. Whether someone should come out or not is entirely their choice. Heterosexuals will never be able to experience the pressures to come out or not to come out. I cannot imagine when I was much younger having the need to come out about my heterosexuality to my parents or friends; it was just assumed (and probably hoped for)! There does, however, seem to be much pressure on non-heterosexual public figures to come out (or be outed by the media). Why do many people assume heterosexuality? As public figures, should lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender politicians come out? Or, regardless of who you are and what you do, are sexuality and gender identity private matters and not for public consumption? |
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Yes, but... A politician making laws that enual inequalities should really declare their interests. It is hypocritical for closet gays or bisexuals to impose such laws, while making use of their privileged status to insulate themselves from the negative consequences of the laws they enact. Also, people want to know if they can trust politicians - it might have no bearing on their ability to do the job, but if they are prepared to lie about their sexuality then you have to wonder what else they will lie about for personal gain. Other than that, it is of no consequence to me who puts what where for their jollification as long as it's all legal and all partners are consenting.
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I totally agree with you. xx
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Yes, but... A politician making laws that enual inequalities should really declare their interests. It is hypocritical for closet gays or bisexuals to impose such laws, while making use of their privileged status to insulate themselves from the negative consequences of the laws they enact. Also, people want to know if they can trust politicians - it might have no bearing on their ability to do the job, but if they are prepared to lie about their sexuality then you have to wonder what else they will lie about for personal gain. Other than that, it is of no consequence to me who puts what where for their jollification as long as it's all legal and all partners are consenting. xx
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Interesting post - should a heterosexual politician have to declare their heterosexual interests, whether marital or extramarital, when making laws to do with marriage, age of consent, etc? xx It's all hypocrisy... fuck 'em all, bastard politicians! 
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We had precisely that in the Thatcher years with Cecil Parkinson preaching "family values" while paying off his mistress to keep quiet about his child with her... It's all hypocrisy... fuck 'em all, bastard politicians!
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