Tag "Coming Out"

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Pete Buttigieg and Rachel Maddow talk about coming out during moving interview

MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow sat down with 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg for a live interview Monday night that covered a wide range of topics, including being closeted and coming out.

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‘If you like women, why didn’t you just say so?’ Queer Twitter’s reactions to Ariana Grande not-coming-out

Ariana Grande just dropped a new track with fellow singer Victoria Monét and fans believe she might have low-key come out as bisexual. In Monopoly, Grande sings about liking women

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Sam Smith Comes Out as Non-Binary, Genderqueer

In a new interview, singer crooner Sam Smith came out as genderqueer and non-binary. On Instagram’s new series I Weigh Interviews, Smith opened about his body dysmorphia relating to his

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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? (A COMING OUT STORY)

It was on a Saturday night that it happened. At midnight. Two days after I came back from the NYSC orientation camp. My stepmother called me from my room to

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The Way Nigerians Are Coming Out In 2019

“I have also been coming out to friends – except in their case, I don’t treat it like a big deal. There’s no ghen-ghen moment, no announcement, no “I have

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7 Celebrities Who Came Out as Straight

2018 is the year of coming out, and it’s not necessarily just for the gays anymore! While a straight person confirming their heterosexuality is definitely not the same as a

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IT SHOULD BE LOVE UNCONDITIONAL

I came out to my mother two months ago. The aftermath of that was a wrecking of our relationship, a pulling apart of our closeness – something that surprised me

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Opinion: Coming Out Can Be Lonely

Queer people learn all the lessons our heterosexual counterparts learn and then some; not because we want to be burdened with extra work, but simply as a consequence of our

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Your Coming Out Should Be Their Loss, Not Yours

To commemorate the National Coming Out Day, which is today October 11, here is something from a KDian.   I never really had that coming out moment with the expected

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Nollywood And The Homosexual Nigerian

I came out to my colleague some weeks ago. From the first day we met, we had a connection, and that connection quickly led to a fast friendship. She studied