National Coming Out Day shifts to making alliances

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Not just personal anymore
National Coming Out Day shifts to making alliances

When Britton Allen came out at Enloe High School in 1996, he confided his secret to only a few close friends. But they told some other friends, who in turn told others, and so on.
Allen, then 15, ended up being more "out" than he had anticipated, and he faced the repercussions largely alone.

"I was never attacked or anything, though I know people who were," he says. "But certain people were my friends and then didn't want to talk to me."

He teetered in limbo for a while, and then at 17 came all the way out, living openly as a gay teen.

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