Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

I think the race has everything. I think it has difficulty, it has joy, it has excitement, it even has death.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.