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A tough decision at any time.

With gay people, the coming out stories are always the first thing we hear once we get to know one another. Always. Always.

It is a form of building credibility. It is a form of honesty. And above all, it is how we demonstrate that we are all our stories.

Gay people discovered this early.

I am never too tired or too bored or too distant to hear a coming out story.

And to tell mine.

Coming out is so important. It is at least critical to mental health. But further to reduce and eliminate the terrible biases created by established religions and others who fear us more than life itself.

It is so crazy.

So, most of all, we do it for the bigots and the closed minded that they might, through personal example, learn about who we are and who they are also. A closed mind, a mind that hates is a sick mind. It should be treated with compassion and grace. But there are limits, eh?

Tim Cook of Apple made this decision for himself and shares it on Colbert.

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