Join us at Moreno Valley College's : "Coming Out Narratives: Realities of Intersectionality" will be a moderated roundtable panel discussion featuring staff, faculty, and administrators from our college campus sharing their stories on coming out and discussing topics as they relate to doing so. It will be held on Wednesday, October 11th from 11 AM-12:30 PM in SAS 121.
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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.[3]