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On 'coming out'..
If you’re a straight cisgender person, it’s easy to find friends/acquaintances who share your gender and orientation, given that people often break off into social groups such as “ladies nights” or “time with the guys" and so forth.
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If you’re a straight cisgender person, it’s easy to find friends/acquaintances who share your gender and orientation, given that people often break off into social groups such as “ladies nights” or “time with the guys" and so forth.
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Queer people don’t have this luxury of being part of these kinds of groups so easily (unfortunately). It’s easy to end up grandfathered in and being the only one who knows you don’t really belong there the way people think you do.
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Coming out helps us identify each other so we can share meaningful time together where we feel included, not just like we’re tagging along in someone else’s thing that we’re really not supposed to be part of.
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Also, people assume you are cis and by default. If you’re not cis, then unless you come out, it’s just a frustrating fact that people will treat you like you’re someone you’re not. People won’t realise who you are if you don’t tell them.
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So 'coming out' is pretty much a way to help people know what’s true about you so that they stop accidentally treating you according to the false "default" ideas they have (if it's important to you to rectify and you're comfortable in doing so, of course).
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