coming-out

English

Noun

coming-out (plural coming-outs or comings-out)

  1. The act of coming out of the closet
    • 1986 April 12, Duncan Mitchel, “To Grow Gently and with Honor”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
      As he learns how much of himself he has suppressed in his quest for respectability, as he slowly and reluctantly begins to be a whole person, we will hear echoes of our own comings-out.
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