system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: I think using the events of the Orlando shooting as a reason for coming out publicly on social media is in bad taste and only serves as a cry for attention.

Recently many of my "closeted" Facebook friends have decided that because of the Orlando shooting it is now time for them to publicly come out on social media. I think this just serves as a cry for attention amidst all of the chaos and tragedy and I think it's incredibly tacky and ill-timed. However last night I was speaking to somebody who explained to me he felt the same sentiment and was honestly contemplating coming out on Facebook. I do not understand this, and would really like to. Can anyone CMV on this issue?
gpt
The people in the Orlando shooting were targeted because they were LGBT. 49 people died, and for at least some of them, that was the first time anyone in their family found out they were gay. At least some of them were likely closeted trans people who will be  named with a name they didn't want, because almost no one knew the name they preferred. The same goes for the survivors of the attack. Many of them were outed not on their own terms, but on the terms of a horrible, violent person.

Homophobic attacks on this scale are rare, but homophobic violence is distressingly common. Coming out publicly is a declaration that they're not afraid, and they want to express their identity on their own terms rather than living in fear of being outed.