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Let's create a new context for coming out.
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Is it your daughter, your nephew, your teacher, your grandmother or your minister? This website will help you create an inspired
response that will leave you feeling good and your newly out person feeling even better.
Accept this guide to explore the endless ways to joyfully celebrate and support your dear one, as they come out. Begin
by imagining the best coming out possible. What will your special person prefer -- a time for quiet reflection and dreams
of the future or for making merry? Would they like you to send a card, choose flowers, or plan a celebration? Help make
it a day to be remembered.
Let us help you do more than be the fine friend or family that you are. Plan to applaud all the way. You are the pioneers
in the coming out world, paving the way for future families and friends that want to be allies with a punch, friends with
a kick, families that with tenderness and love see their person through the time of coming out time.
Someone close to you voiced the words that changed her world forever, defined himself in a way that creates a new identity.
Be part of the celebration and joy in this world that may be new to you. Be grateful to have an opportunity to respond. Carry
it well.
If you are struggling with homosexuality, please see the Get Help section.
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Why Applause? Why Now?
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Often the time of coming out is marked by theatrics or fearful concern. Where even hopes for the best are dampened with wariness
about the homophobia that runs rampant in many locales.
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This is a good time to take a different look at this important time. Make choices. Choose words. Thoughtfully plan actions.
It can't help but make a better world.
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In every other life transition, attention is given to that which is being left behind and wishes of success and happiness
made for what is to be newly entered, be it a graduation, marriage, parenthood, new jobs, new degrees, or new homes. Few in
the life would say that the time of coming out is a lesser transition and yet the time is marked with a decidedly different
energy.
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Hurdles abound for those coming out. Applause Now addresses a fraction of that picture by encouraging a vigorously hopeful
and heartfelt public response to an announcement about coming out. It is a website dedicated to supporting the importance
of providing a loving welcome and response of affirmation to those that come out.
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While cheering and exuberant applause at this time will not erase the devastation of homophobia, it may begin to open minds
and hearts, change behaviors and let people enjoy the time of this amazing transition.
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Your loved one knows, far better than you can ever communicate to them, the risks they are taking. What they need is not the
voice of homophobic reality, which stares at them from most corners, but the sound of inclusive and loving support and joy.
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They need to know that you recognize that they are the very same person they were moments before they came out.
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