{"id":26308,"date":"2015-10-10T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challenges\/"},"modified":"2015-10-10T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:10:19","slug":"more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/immigration_blog_263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        As LGBT rights are gaining salience around the world, more and more people are finding the courage to come out to their friends, family and the broader community.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challen?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challen?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges As LGBT rights are gaining salience around the world, more and more people are finding the courage to come out to their friends, family and the broader community. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challen?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challen?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/more-lgbt-individuals-around-the-globe-continue-to-come-out-despite-challenges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More LGBT Individuals Around the Globe Continue to Come Out Despite Challenges As LGBT rights are gaining salience around the world, more and more people are finding the courage to come out to their friends, family and the broader community. 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