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I really enjoyed Felice Picano's visit to our class. His compelling stories were uncensored and embellished with academic voice, which really attracted me the most. What really caught my attention however, was his idea of "coming out" as a process rather than a one time thing. In my Performance and Self class, we had recently read an article by Judith Butler in which she said that "coming out" was just the act of  coming out into another closet; that you are never really out becuase you always have to prove youself to those you come out to. I think if I had a question to ask Picano, it would be if he agrees with this or not. In other do you or anyone else believe that "coming out" does not give you freedom of expression, but rather it gives the society in which you "come out" to, the freedom to condemn you?