LGBTQ+ refugees may face outing in their home countries before being dragged through an archaic asylum system that forces them to ‘prove’ their identities to complete strangers, case studies from a refugee charity shared for National Coming Out Day show.

National Coming Out Day takes place every year on 11 October and was first celebrated in 1988, with the date marking the one year anniversary of the the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. It was created to honour LGBTQ+ people who decided to come out and live their lives openly as queer people.

Coming out is a deeply personal and individual experience for LGBTQ+ folks and people can ‘come out’ at any age.

For some, it won’t be a big deal at all and might something they do off-hand or causally – such as explaining w

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