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With One Sleeve Up, Gay Indians plan to come out on Oct 11

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October 11 is celebrated as the National Coming Out day globally, and this time, Indians have planned a unique campaign to come out to other individuals by rolling up one sleeve of their shirt.

The One Sleeve Up Campaign hopes to help queer people form support groups and make friends at their workplaces, schools, and colleges. “The idea is really simple: you roll up only one of your sleeves thisOctober 11(National Coming Out Day) and come out to others dressed like you with just a smile or a wink. It’s like a secret global coming out party!” the organizers said.

The campaign is already garnering a positive response on social media.

You can get more details on their Facebook event page.

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4 Responses

  1. sakib

    its a really awesome trick to come out yaar…..♡♥♡♥♡♥

    god bless….

  2. Sonne

    Why, I do NOT support The One Sleeve Up Campaign as a GLOBAL COMING OUT DAY event –

    1. It states “we are having a global secret LGBT Party … we’re all coming out to each other” ::: Implies ‘Let’s identify possible hook-ups without being caught’

    2. It states, “NOTE: WE DO NOT WANT ANY MEDIA ATTENTION” ::: Implies ‘We do not want anyone to know we are celebrating Global Coming Out Day, instead we are going to be in the closet about it’

    3. In their page description, It states, “We’ve always wished we had a marker to identify other queer people in public, that we didn’t have to rely on the Internet or to go specific spots to meet others from the community. We’ve all desired to know who else was gay at our workplaces, in our colleges and schools, among our friends, and on the streets” ::: Implies, ‘We want our hook-up options to be easily identifiable so we can select or reject without having to make any effort’

    4. Last but not the least, a journalist (I think) wrote to them that he is planning to do a story for The Wall Street Journal and would like LGBTIQ Voices to speak to him and he offered to change names for safety. He is responded by the page, “Hi Karan, we do not want any media attention. The nature of this event is such that it will be ruined if everyone learns about it. This is a secret public party for all queer people!’

    In more than many ways, I find this campaign, shoddy, a lame attempt at hook-up idea by some individual sitting at home unable to find the guys or lacking confidence to approach anyone on Grindr, Tindr and blahndr so came up with this ultra-lame, ultra-stupid idea. He is insulting every activist and campaign which fights for ‪#‎EqualLove‬ and ‪#‎EqualRights‬ for LGBTIQ Community and has turned it into a very low hook-up party that he claims to call ‘global secret public party’ – hence it is nothing but a PARTY OF GAY MEN FOR HOOKUP for this Individual who does not know what the very meaning of GLOBAL COMING OUT DAY is and what is it’s purpose.

    Sorry, but I am NOT sorry, this is a very cheap shot at a very important campaign to gain ‘hookup’ benefits ONLY.

    Be a man, COME OUT!

    Sonne

    • Reader

      Everything looks like a “hook-up attempt” to you because that is what you think all day long.

      I see it as an interesting method to identify gay people around you, NOT for hook up, but for being friends. For being a support system in times of need. For being someone to go to when you are tired of aching for your straight crush and not even being able to tell anyone about it. Perhaps you have never experienced such cute friendships, hence it all seems lame to you.

      The reason to keep it all secret and away from media attention is to still maintain the closet against straight people / family, so that the comfort of the closet is still maintained, yet you can come out to at least the queer folk.

      It is a delicate balance between being out and still being closeted. The importance and beauty of such a balance can be appreciated by only those who are closeted and need some daily life queer friends, but won’t get it on Grindr / PR coz it is full of hookup-ers like you. YOU for one can’t appreciate this campaign coz you divide your life in activism and hookups. But there exist other people who want neither of those. What they want is simple queer friends, without being out.

      So please learn to appreciate even the smallest attempt that anyone makes at making others comfortable in the double lives that we are leading, instead of calling it names. We are not like you, You are not like us. We are all different colours of the rainbow.

      • aaravg

        I agree with u.. But i missed this day.. I doubt how many guys knew abt this.. If i wasn’t aware that means several others might not b aware of this campaign.. There must b a way to let all the queers know abt such things without any hint to the straights..