{"id":2996,"date":"2017-10-13T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2017-10-23T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:44:35","slug":"national-coming-out-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"National Coming Out Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_sxolz\">\n<div class=\"_e3il2 _gxii9\">\n<div class=\"_si7dy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?attachment_id=2998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114-768x740.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114-1024x986.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114-312x300.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9114.jpg 1593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_ebcx9\">\n<section class=\"_hmd6j _8oo9w\">October 11th<span title=\"Edited\">\u00c2\u00a0was National Coming Out Day It began 29 years ago to mark the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The march featured the first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>That night The History Project\u00c2\u00a0honored Larry Kessler, the first Director and one of the founders of AIDS Action Committee (part of a long list of contributions to AIDS service organizations). There is so much that could be said about such a remarkable man. Learning about him has been a master class in leadership, service and compassion. We could use more Larrys in the world.<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section>Separately, the same week, Brendan&#8217;s class was asked for Art class to draw the flag that best represents them. The flags would be displayed in the classroom for Open House. Here&#8217;s Brendan&#8217;s artwork. It prompted conversations in his class, but Brendan, as always, is his authentic self.<\/section>\n<section><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?attachment_id=2997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9025-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9025-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9025-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9025-820x1024.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 11th\u00c2\u00a0was National Coming Out Day It began 29 years ago to mark the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The march featured the first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=2996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}