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Answer questions 1 and 2 on pages 183 and 184. Each question should be at least 150 words or more

1. Compare the similarities and differences of the “three coming out stories” referred to in the title  of Roxane Gay’s essay. What do the lives of Sally Ride, Anderson Cooper, and Frank Ocean, as described in the essay, tell us about the process of publicity declaring one’s sexual orientation?

Sample of how to do your discussion (Don’t copy it)

In Roxane Gay’s essay the similarities of the “three coming out stories” are: the three of them where very public figures, they have to sacrifice them privacy, and the three of them where gay. The differences among them were that they where One white male, one black male, and white female. One was a journalist, one was a singer, and the girl was an astronaut

Most of the time people know about who famous people is gay, but for some reason they are just waiting for them to admit their sexual orientation openly in public. Like if they deserve an explanation.

In July 2012,  Anderson Cooper a successful journalist came out of the closes by someone else’s writings. Andrew Sullivan published in the Daily Beast’s  saying that Copper wrote an email saying that he always was open and honest with his family and friends about his sexual preferences. Also he stablished that he always was and always be gay, and he said that he couldn’t be more happy, comfortable and proud of himself.

The first astronaut Sally Ride die at the age of sixty-one. She always fought for the LGBT rights. Although she was more than a hero fighting, stand up, and be counted as a lesbian, at the time of her death her survivor partner of twenty-seven years never received federal benefits.

Also in 2012 a low profile R&B musician Frank Ocean an African-American male came out via Tumblr, a social network, where he openly admitted that he first love was a man.

2. Throughout the essay, Gay discusses the balance between privacy and the disclosure of personal information for the greater good. She ends the essay with a question for those of us who are not celebrities: “How helpless are we willing to be for the greater good? (paragraph 33) When, if ever, might it serve the greater good to give up some privacy?

Sample Discussion

When their privacy doesn’t help in any way to the community and could be harmful for them. When the information given will help other to fight for their rights and make others feel that they are not along

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