Episode 22 - Out

National Coming Out Day is October 11, every year. The day was founded by Dr. Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary in 1988, acting on behalf of their organizations, The Experience and National Gay Rights Advocates, in celebration of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which 500,000 people marched on Washington, DC, United States, for gay and lesbian equality. National Coming Out Day events are aimed at raising awareness of the LGBT community among the general populace in an effort to give a familiar face to the LGBT rights movement.
On this episode of The Ernest Experience Radio Show, we'll not only tell our own story of coming out, and the struggle with it having been born and raised in the buckle of the Bible belt, but we're super anxious to hear your stories. We want to hear how and when you came out, if it was a good or bad experience, or if you're out at all. If you're not, what is holding back the process? Are ultra-conservative groups like Westboro Baptist Church, and Focus On The Family, holding people back from coming out, or does it propel the closeted into the public light to fight the prejudice?
Let's talk about it. We'll also discuss why it's still an "issue" or a "problem", in 2010, to come out to friends and family, or even moreso, to ourselves. This show is for straight, gay, lesbian, and everyone else in between.
We also have a special appearance by J Ril of The J-Ril Show, right here on BlogTalkRadio.