Focus on one person revealing themself (for support or judgement) |
Focus on a group sharing the journey together. Acknowledges that those with whom we share our identities carry their own experience of those identities |
One conversation, a singluar event |
Continuous process, involves multiple events |
Identity we're "out" as is constant |
Identities and our understanding of them are fluid and change over time |
A global effect that depends on a created false binary between being "out" or "closted" |
Always a new conversation, with over 7 billion people on the planet no one is "out" to all of them |
Only for LGBTQIA community |
Everyone engages in the process of self-discovery and deciding how much to share with whom |