National Coming Out Day

Sometimes the most brilliant takes on homosexuality come from the most unlikely of sources -- a woman. Stephanie Sandberg from the Huffington Post touched on many issues that have to do with what same gender loving and sexuality is all about in a post about the Foley scandal that says a bit more than meets the eye.

Denny Hastert seems remarkably suited for his particular sorry role and the way the Foley disaster has played out. Consider that Hastert was a high school wrestling coach. His charges were young males, at an age when beauty, rage, strength and tenderness merge in a coursing confusion of hormones, grappling with each other in tights for hours on end in a steamy gymnasium. If you were Denny Hastert -- glance again at his puzzled face, his hunched shuffle as he heads to the podium -- could you afford to allow thoughts of sexual tension surface?

Read all of it here: At the Huffington Post.


If you want to bring it all home, go here.


The concept of coming out as a public and political statement is different to coming out to family and friends. Accepting one's own feelings and inclinations can be a long journey toward self love or it can be instant inspiration and illumination.

The key for the rest of you is to realize that whether it's love or simply an inclination, a proclivity, or a wild time it is just a manifestation of life.