Fullerton College is to take part in a nationwide event, National Coming Out Day. National Coming Out Week is a multi-national event, in the United States it’s managed by the Human Rights Campaign.
They offer resources to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals, couples, parents and children, as well as straight friends and relatives who support their cause. Despite the name National Coming Out Day, this event is celebrated in multiple countries including: Switzerland, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and now as of 2008 the Netherlands.
FC being involved with this event is a large stepping stone
to show that there are colleges out there that are willing to support a
controversial subject.
The day was founded in 1988 in celebration of the second national march on Washington for gay and lesbian rights one year earlier.
Here at FC the LAMBDA society is putting on a open forum for anyone who wishes to discuss their thoughts and feelings on the event and what it represents.
With all of the ill informed and prejudiced people out there, who feel that it is their right to judge and prosecute those who live a different lifestyle from them, it’s great to see a forum for all the prosecuted to show what is really going on.
FC also showed their support for their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students with the Laramie Project, which exposed the true animalistic treatment some students are facing.
The more that can be shown and taught, the more acceptance there will be. By participating
in this collaborative event, FC is furthering the “safe zone” they have created here on campus.
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