Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day.
Not long ago I was asked, “What is the piece of writing of which you are most proud?” I answered that the work of which I am most proud is not a piece of writing: It’s a lecture, “What’s Morally Wrong with Homosexuality?”, which I first delivered in 1992 and then spent years honing and presenting all around the country. (It later was the basis for my 2013 book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality?.)
The 2007 version is available on YouTube, with subtitles in English, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Chinese, and Portuguese. I still get mail from around the world from people who find it helpful as they struggle with coming out.
Sadly, coming out continues to be a struggle for many–not only in far-away places but also here in our own backyard–as parents (knowingly or unknowingly) tell their LGBTQ children that their feelings are sick, unnatural, morally disordered, and worse.
We’ve made a lot of progress, and we still have a lot of work to do. #NCOD