Coming Out

Coming out is a difficult experience for all of us. A personal story.

Charlie has an awkward time coming out to his Ellen-hating, Fox-news watching grandma

Politicians from Canada’s major political parties discuss the challenges they have faced as members of the LGBTQ community.

Around 62% of gay teenagers are now choosing to 'come out' to their school. Qboy, Britain's first openly gay rapper, finds out why.

At dinner, a girl must not let her conservative, older sister find out she's gay.

Charlotte is home from University for Christmas and she has something to tell her family... she's gay. What better day to do it when everyone is together on Christmas Day. Only problem is, she's not the only family member who has news.

A teenage boy comes out to his family about his sexual orientation, which proves disastrous.

Mi-na, a female college student who lives with her sister, secretly works in a bar as a part-timer to buy luxury goods. Mi-na, who goes to the bar as usual, greets her brother-in-law as a guest in the room and leaves as if running away. Mi-na asks her sister to keep her secret and seduces her brother-in-law...

Transgender teen, Jazz Jennings, narrates this one hour documentary exploring the history of public gay identity in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community from the 1950s through today.

Hosted by State Senator Shiela Kuehl, 'Coming Out: A collection of Stories', is a in-debth investigation of what it means to be gay/lesbian and how each person has grown to come to grips with their sexuality. Coming Out is an elightening and freeing experience, and those who have experienced it share thier most intimate stories.

A young Christian woman who spent many years hiding her sexuality shares her struggles with coming out as gay, and how it has brought her closer to her mother.

Or 'Coming out of the Closet' as it means in Cameroon, is a criminal offence for the country's homosexuals. But Alice, a bold and intrepid lawyer, is standing alone to defend them. Ostracised by their families and imprisoned by their government, the people that Alice defends can only lead half lives in their own country. This heartbreaking documentary exposes their desperate search for acceptance.

Interviews with teenagers and people in their early 20's who have come out in their small, rural Nebraska hometowns. They have faced prejudice and negative stereotypes as they revealed their sexual orientation to family and friends, and although some of them receive family support, their small town environment poses unique challenges that many urban gays do not face.

They are police officers, they are homosexuals. How to assume one's sexual orientation within an institution little known for its tolerance? Through a series of portraits of men and women, the film collects answers and follows in the footsteps of FLAG !, the association that a few have founded to fight internal discrimination. More visible than elsewhere, the difficulties these police officers face speak of a society that is changing or that must change.

A group of queer and trans actors in Los Angeles audition for the role of coming out. As they reenact typical coming out scenes, they draw from their own biographies, intertwining with the filmmaker and blurring the line between reality and performance.

What is the worst thing that happens when coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gender or queer? The answers, and much more are revealed in this touching and inspiring film. A feature length documentary derived from the interviews on the website, WorstThingAboutComingOut an on-line repository for queer community coming out stories, aimed at serving queer folks that are still in the closet.

Four young activists interview elder gay, lesbian and trans-gender activists who came out in the 1970s. They explore how the catalyst of the Stonewall riots enabled a new generation to come out and begin to organize, get visible and fight for rights. Elders interviewed talk about the early gay pride marches, the American Psychological Association's acceptance of gay people, Anita Bryant anti-gay crusade, the creation of Gay Community Centers, the Disco Era, Harvey Milk and the Gay Game. Written by Anonymous

Four young activists interview elder gay, lesbian and trans-gender activists who came out in the 1960s. They explore how the perfect storm of 1960s activism -- the anti-war, civil rights, and the women's movements -- inspired young LGBT people of the time to fight for their personal freedoms These were the years that led up to the Stonewall Riots in 1969, and the elders explain what the underground LGBT community looked like pre-Stonewall, and how the actions of young, angry activists boiled over and ultimately lead gave way to a national modern LGBT movement.

A group of LGBT people over 40 describe to young people about their experiences coming outing the 1980s. The film covers AIDS, ACT UP, Queer Nation, the government response to AIDS, protests, The AIDS Memorial Quilt and the second National March on Washington. This is the fourth in a series of COMING OUT films that compare and contrast the coming out experience in different decades in the late 20th century and give their ideas and wisdom to a group of upcoming activists.

UK teenagers film themselves coming out to their parents. We follow their experiences of fear and anxiety before they make their announcements.