(Photo Courtesy of Whisper and Huff Post – see link below)

My hope as an educator and ally is if you know a young person (or an old person!) in your world who identifies as LGBT or Q, you respect and appreciate them for the person they are.

For information about National Coming Out Day, and to see more cool quotes, click on this link: National Coming Out Day 2014: LGBT Whisper Users On Acknowledging Their Sexuality In The Open by Curtis Wong.

Also, check out this link to the Human Rights Campaign. It explains why today is important and also features a pretty cool (short!) video.

Coming Out Day –

It matters.