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Coming Out & aging

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Coming Out as LGBTQ+ in Adulthood

Accepting and sharing your gender or sexual identity is always a complex, emotional journey. Coming out later in life comes with some unique challenges — and some benefits, too

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Donald Collins
2021
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LGBT Documentary: Gay, Old and Out

Meet the people who paved the way for LGBT rights. It has been a long hard fight to secure acceptance for the LGBT community, and the older people who fought the fight often get overlooked and forgotten.

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2018
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Coming Out Later in Life: A How-to Guide

Though pop culture often portrays queer people successfully coming out young, a generation of our closeted LGBTQ elders might disagree.

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Nick Levine
2020
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Coming Out at 90 Years Old... to My Gay Daughter—BBC News

Ninety-year-old Kenneth Felts is living proof that it’s never too late. He’s just come out as gay. The Colorado resident used his lockdown time to write his memoirs, which brought back old memories.

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2020
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Older Adults on Coming Out Later in Life

They reflect on rewards, challenges of living authentically.

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Sarah Elizabeth Adler
2019
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Why It’s Never Too Late to Be a Lesbian

More and more women are discovering after years of marriage to men, and having had children, that they are lesbians. Were they always—or is sexuality more fluid?

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Kira Cochrane
2010
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