UNST 421 GRAY WRITE A COMING OUT LETTER BASED

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Write a Coming Out Letter

UNST 421 Gray



Write a Coming Out Letter.


Based on the materials you’ve read in class, the coming out stories you heard at SMYRC, and building on the internet search log, write a 1-page coming out letter and an attached 1-page reflection about this experience. Consider someone in your life that you would, or did, have to come out to—address the letter to that person. Please consider what it might be like to be a sexual and/or gender minority that you currently are not. Certainly we can never truly know what it is like to “walk in someone else’s shoes” but an exercise such as this might be able to help us understand some of the social privilige that is implicit in no longer being a youth, or being heterosexual, or cisgender, or no longer questioning our identities.

Please format the paper as if it were a real letter, addressing it to the person or people that you are writing and attach a 1-page response describing how this assignment affected you, how it felt writing the letter. Keep in mind the experiences of youth in this situation.Did it stir up memories of when you came out, hardships of that process? Was it difficult to imagine life as a sexual or gender minority? Explain what you would tell the person or people to whom you are addressing the letter, how would you go about it? What kind of response do you imagine you would get? Would that response change over time? How would the response affect you/your life? Include your understanding of the process of coming out, as well as the function that coming out serves. Do you believe it is a personal process? Does it serve a political function as well? Is coming out a rite of passage, an event, an ongoing process?

You may write this letter from the perspective of a young person, or from the age you are now, whichever is more authentic in capturing the coming out experience.


Due: May 28th



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