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Coming out 1. Feel the soil i t is recognition by a person of his belonging to a sexual or gender minority. It’s makes you more confident and you feel that you can just be yourself. Coming out is a big step in your life that you need to try to do with the least negative consequences for your mental health. So, here is a list of recommendations for safety coming out: E xplore background by touching the topic about LGBT with your relatives, friends and colleagues, softly. Learn how they react and what they think about it. Depending on their reaction, decide whether to move to the next stage or whether it is better to postpone this topic R 2. Start small ussia criminalizes homosexuality propaganda, so you better not to declare your orientation on social networks. Start with the people close to you, according to your feelings, ready to accept you despite of your identify. You can either immediately state your orientation or gradually, with the help of special signals that will prepare a person to conversation about your coming out. Do not rush. Step by step, tell more and more people, so that after some amount of time the majority will be know about it.