{"id":207,"date":"2018-06-19T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:37:42","slug":"activism-letter-to-national-coming-out-day-supporters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/activism-letter-to-national-coming-out-day-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to National Coming Out Day Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/?pdfemb-serveurl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.lib.ua.edu%2Fblogs%2Fempoweringvoices%2Ffiles%2Fsecurepdfs%2F2018%2F06%2FMSS-1793-018.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-download-nonce=\"d96dad50c9\" data-disablerightclick=\"on\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">MSS-1793-018<br\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Title<\/td>\n<td>Letter to National Coming Out Day Supporters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Date<\/td>\n<td>31 October 1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Description<\/td>\n<td>This letter recaps the impact of the first National Coming Out Day (NCOD) on October 11, 1988. It bears the signatures of Jean O&#8217;Leary of National Gay Rights Advocates, a legal organization, and\u00a0Rob Eichberg, a founder of a personal growth workshop called The Experience. O&#8217;Leary and Eichberg created NCOD. National Coming Out Day is still celebrated on October 11, a date chosen to mark the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Donor<\/td>\n<td>Gift of June Holloway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Collection<\/td>\n<td><em>Alabama Forum<\/em> Records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Repository<\/td>\n<td>The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Related Items<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/activism-poster-national-march-on-washington-for-lesbian-and-gay-rights\/\">National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights Poster<\/a> ; <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/press-packet-for-national-coming-out-day-supporter\/\">Press Packet for National Coming Out Day Supporters<\/a> ; <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/the-crimson-white-national-coming-out-day-coverage\/\">The Crimson White: National Coming Out Day Coverage<\/a> ; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/coming-out-week-93-poster-we-are-everywhere\/\">Coming Out Week &#8217;93&#8221; Poster: &#8220;We Are Everywhere!<\/a>&#8220;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Letter to National Coming Out Day Supporters Date 31 October 1988 Description This letter recaps the impact of the first National Coming Out Day (NCOD) on October 11, 1988. 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