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SEXUALITY -- Coming-out etiquette for the straight

Started by LostInTime, March 21, 2007, 08:19:17 PM

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"A Straight Guide" offers questions to ask and ways to show support to a gay friend. It also provides various statistics on same-sex couples, as well as on hate crimes against gay Americans. At the back of the guide, there is a glossary, one that Jerry Miller found particularly useful.

"Most people know what lesbian and gay means, but there are still a lot of questions around the terms gender identity and gender expression. Or what the difference is between transgender and transsexual," said Miller, a retired American Baptist minister who used the pamphlets last week (March 17) as part of his "Love Welcomes All; Gay and Straight Together" conference in Hendersonville, N.C.
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