• mormon
    A year of coming out caught on camera

    A gay Mormon missionary and student at Mormon US college Brigham Young University has spent an entire year coming out to friends and family – and capturing it all on film. Jimmy Hales posted the video to...

    • Posted 87 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Smutting up and coming out

    When straight people ask how old I was when I came out, I’m never sure what to say. As most queers will understand, coming out isn’t something you do just once. I can remember the first time,...

    • Posted 94 days ago
  • George Takei helps you come out at Christmas

    Christmas can be a somewhat difficult time of year for members of the LGBTI who aren’t ‘out’ to their families and being open and honest at this time of year can be a tricky and delicate issue....

    • Posted 149 days ago
  • Luv and other catastrophes

    Growing up gay in Australia’s Lebanese community, Sam and Mouna feel they’ll never be able to come out to their parents. How do they hide their respective sexualities while getting their parents off their back? Easy: a...

    • Posted 170 days ago
  • Johnston makes top US list

    Gay former Victorian hockey player Gus Johnston has been included in OUT magazine’s list of 100 compelling people for 2012. He’s in good company on the US gay publication’s list, which includes Elton John and husband David Furnish,...

    • Posted 192 days ago
  • Coming out after 40

    We have all seen them bubbling around gay venues behaving like bouncy teenagers on the loose at 40. These gay men are coming out later in life but behind this rejoicing façade may be an unhappy man,...

    • Posted 297 days ago
  • Country music’s golden girl comes out

    Country music singer Beccy Cole revealed she is gay in a surprise announcement on ABC program Australian Story. Appearing on the program on Monday night, Cole said she had avoided coming out for years, fighting to keep...

    • Posted 298 days ago
  • Kirby calls on leaders to come out

    Former High Court Judge Michael Kirby has urged high-profile gay Australians to come out and end the ‘pretending’. In an address to the Law Society of Victoria, Kirby called on sport, business and political leaders to come...

    • Posted 416 days ago
  • Comic offers wise words

    In one of Magda Szubanski’s countless interviews last week (following her emotional coming-out on television) she offered a pertinent reminder of the expectation (in the minds of queers and non-queers alike) that “in this day and age”...

    • Posted 451 days ago
  • Coming out

    Openly telling people your sexual identity can be a terrifying experience. It can also be a very positive and uplifting experience. While many people experience a lot of anxiety around coming out, a lot of people find...

    • Posted 452 days ago