{"id":572,"date":"2024-01-30T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/qa\/do-i-have-to-come-out\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:52:33","slug":"do-i-have-to-come-out","status":"publish","type":"qa","link":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/qa\/do-i-have-to-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I have to come out?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whether, where, to whom, and when to come out (or not) is entirely a personal choice. Coming out is not something you &#8220;have to&#8221; do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some LGBTQ+ persons are,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u26ab\ufe0eI&#8217;m only coming out to people at work.<br>\u26ab\ufe0eI have come out to my close friends<br>\u26ab\ufe0eI have come out only to my family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people are selective about where and with whom they come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there are also those who say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel the need to come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, prejudice and discrimination still remain in society, and many people do not feel safe to come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming out can make it easier to talk about yourself to others and get the support you need. That is why we need to create a society where people feel safe to come out when they want to talk about their sexuality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1530,"template":"","qa_category":[94],"qa_tag":[101,100],"class_list":["post-572","qa","type-qa","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","qa_category-qa-lgbtqandsogie-en","qa_tag-comingout-en","qa_tag-lgbtq-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/qa"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"qa_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa_category?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"qa_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palettalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa_tag?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}