Category: Coming out

Coming Out. "Accepting yourself, getting accepted, winning the indifference or prejudices of the people ... No, it has not always been like today ... memories crowd in the mind and I go back to when for the first time I talked about me to my family, my parents and my brothers. That day is printed in my soul as fire. (...) Yes, it was a day that represented an important moment of passage in my life because I finally said enough! Enough with lies, enough with fictions, enough with the fake interests ... the time of truth had come! " (from "Love is ..." by Maria P. Depace)

Coming out

Browse "Hugo is gay", a comic on coming out

How many things can be told through a comic that cannot be transmitted in a novel made of only the text? Today we find out with a short and interesting comic that talks about self -discovery and coming out: "Hugo is gay by Hugues Barthe" (Comicout, 2021, 102 pages), which is presented to us by the journalist Elisa Belotti. This...

Coming out

Coming Out syndrome. The long journey to be oneself

Text by Lori Heine, published on Whosoever (United States) on March 1, 2013. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project.* As many of us know, making coming out is never a single moment, but a journey. Sometimes, a long and tiring journey. We can find ourselves postponing, to hesitate, paralyzed by the fear of that crucial step, especially with ...

Coming out

In the candlemath with the purification of Mary and the coming out of Jesus

Text by Jason Steidl Jack*, published in New Ways Ministry (United States) on February 2, 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project on February 2, the church celebrates the feast of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, also known as the purification of Maria or Candelora. According to the Gospel of Luke (2,22-40), forty days after the birth of Jesus, Mary ...

parents / Coming out

Five things that a Catholic parent should know when a child comes out

Reflections by Karen Kaffenberger* published on Outreach.Faith (United States) on May 14, 2024. Freely translated by Angelica Mancuso. As a Catholic parent of three adult children LGBTQ, I would like to be able to tell you that their "coming out" and the consequent path were faced by me and my husband with perfect clarity, wisdom, faith and love. But that's not the case. Was...

Coming out

Coming outs never end

Reflections by Dr. Shainna Ali published on Psychology Today.com (United States), June 5, 2018 Coming out is commonly viewed as a unique experience. The stereotype is often that of a young LGBT+ person coming to terms with their identity, achieving self-acceptance and deciding to reveal their identity to everyone in their community...

Coming out

When coming out breaks into the family

Text by Michael C. LaSala* taken from Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child, Columbia University Press, 2010, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project “If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange : a circle of segments, close but separable, each unique and distinct" Letty Cottin Pogrebin For some girls, it could all have begun...