In this episode of The Nicholas Snow Show, learn how the first National Coming Out Day came to be in 1988 from people who were there! October 11th, 2020, is the 32nd Anniversary of National Coming Out Day.
Both Nicholas, and his special guest for this broadcast, Honey Ward – along with thousands of others, were intimately involved with the first NCOD. Honey is most known as a longtime facilitator of The Experience, a seminar which has transformed the LGBT civil rights movement, and she is also a Life Coach.
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Above, a clip from the October 11th, 1988, National Coming Out Day Broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Show which, at the time, had a daily viewship of over 20 million people. Highlighted on the clip, and appearing throughout the one-hour broadcast, NCOD co-founders Rob Eichberg Ph.D. and Jean O’Leary.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11, to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people (and sometimes other groups typically grouped within the LGBT community) to “coming out of the closet”. First celebrated in the United States in 1988, the initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, and the emphasis on the most basic form of activism being coming out to family, friends and colleagues, and living life as an openly lesbian or gay person.
The foundational belief is that homophobia thrives in an atmosphere of silence and ignorance, and that once people know that they have loved ones who are lesbian or gay, they are far less likely to maintain homophobic or oppressive views.
NCOD was inaugurated in 1988 by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary. Eichberg, who died in 1995 of complications from AIDS, was a psychologist from New Mexico and the founder of the personal growth workshop “The Experience”. O’Leary was an openly lesbian political leader and long-time activist from New York, and was at the time the head of the National Gay Rights Advocates in Los Angeles.
LGBT activists, including Eichberg and O’Leary, did not want to respond defensively to anti-LGBT action because they believed it would be predictable. This led them to establish NCOD in order to maintain positivity and celebrate coming out. The date of October 11 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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