{"id":278,"date":"2006-10-11T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/10\/11\/national-coming-out-day\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T16:31:21","slug":"national-coming-out-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/10\/11\/national-coming-out-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Coming Out Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upside of growing old at Harvard is that you have young people to remind you of all the important things going on in the world. [The downside is the constant reminder that i&#8217;m not the guy i used to be.] Anyway, thanks to some<strong> Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance<\/strong> [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/queer\/\">BGLTSA<\/a>] folks tabling outside the Harvard Science Center, i am now aware that today October 11 is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Coming_Out_Day\">National Coming Out Day<\/a>. i&#8217;m thinking that the &#8216;Supporters&#8217; thing means that even if you are not BGL or T, but just a boring old het, you can still wear the rainbow ribbon. You could view it as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_X_of_Denmark\">King Christian X of Denmark<\/a> thing. Or maybe you want to avoid the regrets of Pastor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came...\">Martin Niem\u00f6ller<\/a>. Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upside of growing old at Harvard is that you have young people to remind you of all the important things going on in the world. [The downside is the constant reminder that i&#8217;m not the guy i used to be.] Anyway, thanks to some Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance [BGLTSA] folks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1056],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-they-came-for"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}