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What Coming Out Meant To Me

Coming out is not only about telling people who you are, it’s about accepting and being true to yourself.

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Making conversation with the internal and external – Caleb Hardy

Trans visibility day for me is a day of broadcasting representation, the confidence in numbers that this day brings I believe should be an everyday occurrence considering the positive effect […]

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“That’s okay”

So my experience is pretty underwhelming, so don’t be too disappointed. Since early high school, I was pretty open to friends about my state. I quite straightforwardly called myself bi-curious, […]

Posted on by LukahLukah
Posted in Community Blog, StartOut Role Models

Reflections on being wrong about queerness

In hindsight, I was wrong about a lot of things. For one, I was wrong about what it means to be queer. Years after coming out, some part of me […]

Posted on by ShannonShannon
Posted in Community Blog, StartOut Role Models

How lucky am I?

Here I am with my partner of 38 years, a home we own without a mortgage, a daughter and three wonderful grandchildren. I don’t really know how I survived my […]

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Posted in Community Blog, StartOut Role Models

The not so surprising surprise

Growing up in a town with a population of 22,000 wasn’t the easiest thing in the world, particularly when you identify as DSG, I was also one of four boys, […]

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My Coming Out

I left home when I was 18 when I started university and stayed in a share house near my university.  I knew it was going to be hard, very hard […]

Posted on by AshvinAshvin
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A Friend in My Time of Need

After my migration to Australia when I was 19 I had many casual jobs then I trained as a nurse. In my second year of nurse training my mother in […]

Posted on by SylviaSylvia
Posted in Community Blog, StartOut Role Models

Coming out wasn’t a one-time experience for me and it still isn’t

I wish I just could’ve forward an email to everyone I know; linked with Diana Ross’s ‘I’m Coming Out’ , in the first place. How simple and direct that would’ve […]

Posted on by [email protected]Caleb
Posted in StartOut Role Models

The First Move

For people of diverse sexuality and gender, courage can often be undermined by self-hatred and the fear of being rejected amongst our closest families and friends. We take on board […]

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