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COMING OUT

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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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Numerology

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

Examples of COMING OUT in a Sentence

1. Jin Keli:

   With more new products coming out, especially these glasses, we think we can use them to conduct contactless temperature measurement, they are very efficient when faced with a big crowd of people.

2. Marc Levine:

   Overwhelmingly, white suburban areas of Milwaukee sort of draw a line in saying no to a rail system, the opposition has been couched in coded language, but I think behind that coding is, 'We don't want people who don't look like us getting on the rail and coming out into our suburban areas.'.

3. David Goldfein:

   When we made the decision on retiring the A-10, we made those decisions prior to ISIL, we were not in Iraq, we were coming out of Afghanistan to a large extent, we didn't have a resurgent Russia.

4. Elissa Slotkin:

   None of us is ever going to get in a Twitter war with anyone else, if we have a concern with someone, we're going to go right up and talk to Chrissy Houlahan about it and we're not going to add unhelpful rhetoric to an already bad tone coming out of Washington.

5. Donald Trump:

   I'm not waiting for this committee and I've told a lot of people I don't expect much coming out of the committee because I keep hearing words that' We'll give you what you want but we won't give you a wall.' And the problem is, if they don't give us a wall, it doesn't work.

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