When you think back to your own coming out process (or as you anticipate it) imagine doing it all on film for the whole world to see. Brooklyn filmmaker Alden Peters decided to do just that and the resulting feature-length documentary, Coming Out, is out today on DVD and digital just in time for National Coming Out Day (October 11). Depicting each encounter with his family and friends, Peters shares his unique and yet universal experience with the world.
Coming Out has had a run on the film festival circuit and is sure to inspire many with its portrayal of courage. Having now founded his own production company, Casa Vera Productions, Peters has several new projects in the works and also recently produced a pair of powerful activist videos, We Are Orlando — Vigil at the Stonewall Inn and One Pulse: NYC Stands with Orlando.
Check out the film’s trailer below and look for Coming Out at DVD retailers and digital platforms.
jag4313
One day, 100 years from now, it will be totally acceptable and people will never need to come out again.
Stilinski26
Hes so cute
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
If only someone could’ve thought of doing something like this on, say, YouTube
o.codone
Oh, look at me, look at me. I’m coming out. Seriously, STFU. Aside from yourself, is there ANYBODY who gives AF?
Kieran
How many of us would have loved to have seen these “Coming Out” videos of other boys like us when we were 13 or 14?
phallictomato
@o.codone: I give a -bleep- 🙂
I think it’s still important to come out. We shouldn’t have to, but there is still homophobia (and always will be), but until the general population stops automatically assuming that a boy likes a girl, and a girl likes a boy, and uses phrases like ‘oh that boy is going to be a ladykiller’, we still have to correct people that they really shouldn’t assume anything.
The trailer looks a little intriguing, but I don’t think I’m going to buy it. There are plenty of coming out stories on YouTube for free. Good on him for making a documentary about his coming out process though. Power to him. If it helps others? Even better.
SFHandyman
I would have felt so much safer had I been able to see videos like this when I was a kid/teen. The only examples I had of an honest portrayal of a real gay man was “The Naked Civil Servent” which I saw after midnight on PBS when I was about 14. Quentin Crisp is nothing like me though, and he wasn’t someone I would aspire to emulate, so it didn’t help much.
The more coming out films, the better for the new kids coming up. Even if they don’t see them, their parents, teachers, coaches, preachers, … might and become more sensitive to the situation.