In observance of National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11), I asked you to submit your best piece of coming out advice by video in ten seconds or less.
I was overwhelmed by your response; watching your clips was nothing short of amazing. I couldn’t include them all – so I selected a handful or representative clips to include in the video below. A huge thank you to everyone that participated.
Now, more than ever, we need to spread your words far and wide in support of LGBT youth. Please post the video on your Facebook, tweet it, e-mail it – do whatever you can to spread it like wildfire on this National Coming Out Day.
October 11, 2010 at 7:02 am
Great Job Davey and everyone who contributed!
This really made me smile this morning. Thank you all.
October 11, 2010 at 7:17 am
Well Done Everyone! Great Advice .
October 11, 2010 at 7:50 am
Nicely and courageously done….. From someone deeply still in that damn closet.
October 11, 2010 at 7:58 am
Eloquently beautiful.
October 11, 2010 at 8:06 am
Beautiful and teary. A beautiful video. Congratulations to all those with the fortitude to come out.
I’m like Anderson Cooper. Everyone knows I’m gay, but I never came out and said it publicly. It was only recently, that I admitted to myself that I was gay.
October 11, 2010 at 9:02 am
Great video. I came out when I was 19. Now I’m 57. My advice: Come out to yourself first, close friends next, then family. And keep your private life separate from your professional life. You don’t have to come out there at all. Keep them guessing.
October 11, 2010 at 9:08 am
At my aunt mary’s for lunch one day she said, “you know anthony i don’t care what your lifestyle is, i’ll always love you.” i said, “so you know i’m gay.” then there was a knock on the door so she answered it. It was my other aunt, aunt jo. so aunty mary opens the door and starts screaming to aunt jo, “he came out to me, he came out to me.” we sat around for hours talking abour my life and theirs. I loved hanging with them.
Their still my best friends in their 90′s.
October 11, 2010 at 9:47 am
To support and encourage GLBT youth requires 365 days of coming out. Not just one day. Take advantage of mentoring and speaking opportunities in local schools and be a role model in your company. Volunteering in local charities and visiting your representatives in local and national government is also effective.
And don’t give a dime or a second of your time to HRC – they’ve proven completely ineffective.
October 11, 2010 at 10:19 am
Being “gay” does not define who I am, and for that reasons have never come out. Being “gay” is not who I am, it might be a small factor of my life, but is not my life. When people see me walking down the street they think many different things, but if I came out as “gay” then the first thing they’d think of when they saw me was “That gay kid.” There is nothing wrong with being “gay” but in a world that doesn’t except it, it is so much holder to just forget about it and live on, its alot easier than you might think. And its easy for me to hide, so why not? Point being, I’m not coming out anytime soon.
October 11, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Okay, I check my email before i check the websites and one of my friends used this mornings vid as his ‘Coming out’ method….needless to say i think the vid was full of awesome advice for those that still havent come out.
October 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm
8D I’m on there! (00:21 – 00:30) I seem to be the only person on there that laughs, but I hadn’t told my friend what I was going to do, and thought that taking a second shot at it would lose effect.
Great advice from everyone, I’m thinking of coming out to some of my family by showing them this video tomorrow. – For some reason the UK has National coming out day set as the 12th. And my university’s LGBT is holding a coming out workshop tomorrow, so I’m going to see if they want to play this.
October 11, 2010 at 4:49 pm
this is such a great video, i cried by watching it but I am not ready to come out yet, but it’s good to hear those thing from all of you guys who have already done it.
October 11, 2010 at 7:09 pm
What’s the name of the music?
October 12, 2010 at 1:39 am
I agree with Jeff. Well done.. from someone way, way in the closet.
Wish I could come out one of these days, just not sure if the family would accept it.
October 12, 2010 at 6:11 am
I was really scared of coming out…came from a very religious mormon family. Decided to do it anyway. I thought I would lose everything…in stead they fully accepted me. I feel like I have gained the whole world…
every one comes from a different situation and their way to come-out will be different to mine…but always know that you are loved by a huge community of people (yes, I am speaking about the gay community; which is not all glitter and drugs and whatever else the haters say it is) who fully understand you, and who have been through what you are going through now. We have had the doubts and felt the pain. We have cried the tears.
and we know, that in the end, things work out. YOU ARE NOT ALONE
October 12, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Bravo
, Sid! 
You have “Said-it-All!” Although i’m-Out i never-ever felt it was “necessary.” Nevertheless, for those of whom wanna “come-out,” then, Davey’s video serves as an “Awesome Guide 
!” Furthermore, all the NEEDLESS Deaths(Souicides) 
:’( 
caused by all these “Scum-bag bullies” MUST-STOP!! i hope you Davey and everyone-else here are as “Fed-up” as i am with all their “crap!” i apologize to “All” here, for my “HATEFUL” tone, but i’m SICK-of “ALL this ILK” “that” refuse to allow others to “live in Peace.” i reference the ILK(Bullys) as “that” in lieu of “of whom” because they’re SUB-human(s) with “self-acceptance” issues. Notwithstanding, 
they have ABSOLUTELY NOOO-RIGHT to DRIVE OTHERS TO (His and/or Her) DEATH!!!! Grazie 
to you Davey, Sid and “everyone-else” here. Xo from, _ davvi
October 12, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I told my sister!
October 12, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Very moving. <3
October 13, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Well getting closer to coming out. but IDK
October 15, 2010 at 9:37 am
I loved the video as well. But, my advice would be to wait until you’re financially independent, particularly if you think that coming out will risk the support that you have. I know people who have come out, and whose parents have then refused to pay for college tuition. It would be great if this were never the case. But, sometimes you have to put practicality before principle.
October 17, 2010 at 12:00 am
I came out on National coming out day to my brother without knowing it was a “holiday”, great advices most of them are so true
November 4, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Thanks for the post! I am writing this comment from Russia. I’m gay. And I really want to have people in Russia could just as freely and openly talk about such simple and important things like coming out.
August 14, 2011 at 12:30 am
Good job to Davey everyone else who gave there advice from some one still im the closet