{"id":400,"date":"2016-10-14T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2016\/10\/14\/social-media-empowering-lgbt-community-come-out-national-coming-out-day-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:46:39","slug":"social-media-empowering-lgbt-community-come-out-national-coming-out-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/social-media-empowering-lgbt-community-come-out-national-coming-out-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media empowering LGBT community to come out on National Coming Out Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its 28<sup>th<\/sup> year, The NQ took to the streets and interviewed local Manchester students what National Coming Out Day really means to them.<\/p>\n<p>Tilda Parsons, 19, a student &nbsp;from London said: &quot;My brother came out recently during a family meal.&nbsp; Our sister was heading to South America, so he used this to come out when the whole family was together.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Sam Warden, who came out as Bisexual, said he waited for the right moment:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The night before I couldn&rsquo;t sleep. I came down to my mum in the morning before she was due to go away and told her&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old student from Huddersfield added: &quot;When she came back, it wasn&rsquo;t even an issue, and I was happy being me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My boyfriend also recently came out Facebook, it was the most likes he ever got.&quot;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam and Edward Coming out\" data-fid=\"660\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/sam_and_edward.jpg_.png\" title=\"Sam and Edward Coming out \" width=\"225\" \/><figcaption>Sam and Edward, Manchester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&quot;My friend from China came out when she moved to Manchester. She said it so much easier than doing it back home,&quot; Ioana, 20, from Romania said.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has played a huge part in the acknowledgement of National Coming Out Day. Snapchat used it story feature to facilitate people stories both past and new.<\/p>\n<p>From the people we interviewed Snapchat and Facebook seemed to be the biggest platform to which people were made away of National Coming Out Day.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I saw it on Facebook, people sharing their stories,&quot; Jess and Thomas both 19 and students from Manchester<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Snapchat had cool filters that my straight and gay friends were using,&quot; said Jade Lawson, 19,&nbsp;from Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to give some words of wisdom to those still struggling to come out to their families, there were mixed opinions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do it! Don&#39;t waste anymore time, just do it,&quot; said Chloe, a 19-year-old student from London.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah, 20 from Sheffield said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>people will accept you for who you are, just tell them and then you can live your life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, others encouraged people struggling to come out to take their time.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tell people whenever you are ready&quot; said Thomas, 19 from Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#39;s no rush if you don&#39;t feel ready&quot;, the student added.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out, however someone identifies, still matters. Whether it&rsquo;s someone who&rsquo;s LGBT+ or if someone knows an LGBT+ person, having a&nbsp;voice and a platform to express it is the strongest way to equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its 28th year, The NQ took to the streets and interviewed local Manchester students what National Coming Out Day really means to them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4973,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social media empowering LGBT community to come out on National Coming Out Day 2016 - 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