GenerationQ.net – By Natalie Kalow – Executive Producer
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. It is observed on October 11th in the United States by members of the LGBT communities and their supporters.
NCOD was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary on October 11, 1988 in celebration of the first gay march on Washington D.C. a year earlier in which 500,000 people marched. The purpose of the march and of NCOD is to promote government and public awareness of gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender rights and to celebrate homosexuality