Hello everybody! Today it's an exciting one because it's an episode that has been requested

specifically by you, the listener. We had a lovely listener right in who had just begun

their coming out journey in their mid-30s and they had recently come out to close friends

and family and they were looking for a resource which they could circulate to friends and families

to bring them up to speed on what a person coming out may be experiencing and ways that these

friends and family could help and support them. I'll read out the email that kicked off this whole

thing in a second. So think of this episode as our very own coming out resource and guide

which you consent to loved ones to help educate them and inform them on how to support you.

I think we can all agree that we would have been very helpful for us to have had this

during our own journeys to help to kind of bridge that gap, you know. The most beautiful thing

about this guide is it has been compiled with the help of our brilliant community. We asked you all

a load of questions about your coming out stories, how you were supported, how you could have been

supported better, things to say, things not to say and as always the Homo sapiens community delivered

and we've also enlisted the help of someone really special Zander Murray. Zander, we did a whole

episode with him of Homo sapiens available on the feed. He's a professional Scottish football

league player who has recently come out and he's one of the first male professional football players

in the world to do so and a lot of the work he does revolves around coaching, helping and

supporting LGBTQ plus people. So he is our expert today and he has also someone who would define

himself as coming out later in life which is actually very similar to the person who wrote in.

This is a long overdue resource which hopefully helps a lot of people. We loved making it and also

what's really nice about it is loads of you sharing your stories, beautiful stories, but some really

funny moments, very tender, bittersweet moments. Let's keep this resource going, let's see if there's

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