What the heck is this "National Coming Out Day?"?

Question

I think we are reaching new lows in our culture if there is a day dedicated to this. Why is this anything to be celebrated nationally?

Mac Momma-Definately not a homophobe, I have a close friend, like a brother, that is gay. So, you are way off base there sweetie.

Answer 1

It's merely the next step in the agenda that homosexuals have, demanding acceptance. Interesting to see what step will be taken after this one.....

Answer 2

Why have Valentine's Day? You can look at anything in a positive light or negative light. Is V day not just a "straight" holyday for Hallmark to make some bucs by pressuring people to buy each other presents! oh i don't hate straight people i have a couple of straight friends blah blah blah
that's what you sound like.

Answer 3

“Talk About It” will be the theme of this year’s National Coming Out Day to be celebrated on October 11, 2005. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Coming Out Project is an on-going campaign to empower gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied Americans to live openly and honestly about their lives.

Answer 4

The question is: "Why are you a homophobe?"

http://www.oogachaga.com/downloads/homophobia_and_homosexual_arousal.pdf

August 1996 Press Release

WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear, anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly heterosexual people hold for gay individuals -- is the result of repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theory.

Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment involving 35 homophobic men and 29 nonhomophobic men as measured by the Index of Homophobia scale. All the participants selected for the study described themselves as exclusively heterosexual both in terms of sexual arousal and experience.

Each participant was exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual and lesbian videotapes (but not necessarily in that order). Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.

Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video depicting heterosexual sexual behavior and by the video showing two women engaged in sexual behavior. The only significant difference in degree of arousal between the two groups occurred when they viewed the video depicting male homosexual sex: 'The homophobic men showed a significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual video, but the control [nonhomophobic] men did not.'

Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the nonhomophobic group showed no significant tumescence while watching the male homosexual video, only 20% of the homophobic men showed little or no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the nonhomophobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of the homophobic men did.

When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to which they were aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in both groups gave answers that tracked fairly closely with the results of the objective physiological measurement, with one exception: the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the male homosexual video.

Answer 5

I think it's pretty low and shameful that in this day and age, there's still such ignorant hatred in this world. whether it's due to someones sexuality, religion, race, culture. and sick that there are still organized groups who still think it's ok to discriminate and harass us and try to keep passing laws to legally do so.
well, I guess you're the one that's got to live with yourself.

Answer 6

I accept God's standards for morality and behavior. You Bible lovers out there know exactly what I talking about. Thank you, MadforMac, for pointing out the new lows in our culture. It takes courage, even here on Yahoo Answers, to speak up for what is right.

Answer 7

It's a day for gays to come out of the closet. And I am in total agreement with you.

Answer 8

Its when geeks who have been self-sequestered in their parent's basement come out and see if they can see their own shadow.