This year too, it's Coming Out Day, a very important anniversary for the LGBTQIA*+ community.
Coming out is a crucial moment for queer people who openly declare their sexual orientation and/or gender identity to their loved ones, in social, work, and academic settings.
The campaign aims to raise awareness of how difficult it still can be to come out in certain settings, such as schools and universities. It also aims to highlight the fact that coming out is a form of violence that we, not only as an association but as a community, have a duty to prevent. Everyone should be free to come out at their own pace, or not at all.
This is where the collaboration between the Arcigay Giovani network, which has been carrying out communication campaigns for this important anniversary for years, the Arcigay Scuola network, which carries out its training, prevention, and treatment activities within academic contexts, and the Unione Degli Universitari and the Rete degli Studenti Medi, two student unions that have always been concerned with student well-being, comes from.
Finally, the campaign aims to convey a positive and welcoming message to both those preparing to come out and those in need of a safe space, by directing them to the network of anti-discrimination centers in Italy: https://www.arcigay.it/mappa-nazionale-dei-centri-anti-discriminazione/
