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come out
verb- to declare your homosexuality openly or publicly US, 1941
- Not all homosexuals are “gay.” That term is applied especially to those who are just “coming out” or acknowledging their membership in a minority group. — Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar, p. 9, 1957
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 263, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- I was 16 when I really “came out.” — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 110, 1965
- I didn’t come out until I left college. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 37, 1968
- When we first “came out” we spent many happy and exciting times in gay bars from one coast to the other. — Screw, p. 8, 24 November 1969
- When any male anywhere “comes out” he is faced with the problem of where to find sex partners and/or lovers. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, pp. 5–6, 1971
- “Dig on this: Carol’s come out.” “Come out of what?” Kate asked, after a pause. “Her tube top?” “Not to joke,” Sylvia said. “She’s gay.” — Cyra McFadden, The Serial, p. 88, 1977
- to declare or admit to a personal fact UK, 2000
- I have decided it’s time to come out — Prime Minister Tony Blair, confessing to needing reading glasses at the London Press Awards, May 2001
- Now the phrase “come out” has become a piece of post-modern irony available to all. In an exemplary usage, the general secretary of the National Secular Society recently grumbled, “It’s much easier for a member of parliament to come out as gay than come out as an atheist. — Guardian, p. 23, 9 May 2001
- to leave college or high school amateur athletics and sign a contract to play professionally US
- — American Speech, Winter 1990
- to leave the bush to return to an urban or settled area CANADA
- [A]fterwards, when we had “come out” and were in Toronto[.] — E. Gillis, North Pole Boarding House, p. 136, 1951
▶ come out of the closet
to declare your homosexuality openly or publicly US- It took me almost fifty years to come out of the closet, to stop pretending to be something I was not [...] Anyway I’m out of the closet. Here I am. — Milton Merle, On Being Different, p. 98, 1971
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