Gatekeeper Star News: Pedos should "reveal themselves", not "come out"

[Jim Burton]

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Coming out has become highly, almost exclusively, associated with sexual and gender minorities – LGBTI people.

It’s a term with positive connotations – sexual minorities are encouraged to come out so that they can live their lives opening, honestly and happily. It must not become associated with sex abusers.

Even in relatively progressive countries like Britain, too many completely wrongly equate homosexuality with pedophilia.

Hijacking coming out and altering the meaning of the term will do nothing for the gay rights movement – it will only set it back, both nationally and internationally.