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  1. Coming out

    Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of the closet is described and experienced variously as a psychological process or journey; decision-making or risk-taking; a strategy or plan; a mass or public event; a speech act and a matter of personal identity; a rite of passage; liberation or emancipation from oppression; an ordeal; a means toward feeling gay pride instead of shame and social stigma; or even career suicide. Author Steven Seidman writes that "it is the power of the closet to shape the core of an individual's life that has made homosexuality into a significant personal, social, and political drama in twentieth-century America." Coming out of the closet is the source of other gay slang expressions related to voluntary disclosure or lack thereof. LGBT people who have already revealed or no longer conceal their sexual orientation and/or gender identity are out, i.e. openly LGBT. Oppositely, LGBT people who have yet to come out or have opted not to do so are labelled as closeted or being in the closet. Outing is the deliberate or accidental disclosure of an LGBT person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, without his or her consent. By extension, outing oneself is unintentional LGBT self-disclosure. Lastly, the glass closet means the open secret of when public figures' being LGBT is considered a widely accepted fact even though they have not "officially" come out.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of COMING OUT in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of COMING OUT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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  1. Simon Birmingham:

    We're not doing this as some sort of lapdog of the United States, you'll see there are some marked differences between some of the things that the Australian Government has said and some of the commentary coming out of the United States and that's because we take our own analysis, our own evidence, our own advice and we will take this issue through to the World Health Assembly.

  2. Leah Remini:

    The only thing worse than a disgruntled former employee is a disgruntled former talk show host, for 11 years Sharon has been kind, collegial and friendly with her hosts as evidenced by throwing them parties, inviting them to her home in the UK and other gestures of kindness too many to name. Sharon is disappointed but unfazed and hardly surprised by the lies, the recasting of history and the bitterness coming out at this moment.

  3. Eric Holder:

    The pictures coming out of Wisconsin are troubling. This is unnecessary and harmful, if we do not enact electoral procedures that are health sensitive, we will be putting the well-being of all Americans -- no matter their political preference -- at risk.

  4. British Airways:

    We're disappointed that our plans for a new short-haul subsidiary at Gatwick have not received [ the British Airline Pilots' Association ] support, after many years of losing money on European flights from the airport, we were clear that coming out of the pandemic, we needed a plan to make Gatwick profitable and competitive.

  5. President Donald Trump:

    I wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside, we didn't know about it until it started coming out publicly.

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