Trey Pearson, a Christian rock star (Everyday Sunday) is in the process of coming out.
In the face of great rejection, and possibly severe changes to his career, he is courageously standing up to say who he is.

Go, Trey! Be strong and courageous!

Here's an article in 614 Columbus magazine with an interview.

Unprecedented Apology to the LGBT Community

While American legislators bully trans kids over bathrooms, things are truly getting better in Australia.

Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia addressed the Legislative Assembly with an apology to LGBT Victorians for "powerful prejudice written into law."

Speaker – it’s never too late to put things right.
It’s never too late to say sorry – and mean it.
That’s what brings us all to the heart of our democracy …
… here, in this parliament …
… where, over the course of decades, a powerful prejudice was written into law.
A prejudice that ruined lives.

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So it is our responsibility to prove that the parliament that engineered this prejudice can also be the parliament that ends it.
That starts with acknowledging the offences of the past …
… admitting the failings of the present …
… and building a society, for the future, that is strong and fair and just.

 He discusses predatory police raids, but adds that the police were merely acting on law from the leislature.

But I look back at those statutes and I am dumbfounded.
I can’t possibly explain why we made these laws, and clung to them, and fought for them.
For decades, we were obsessed with the private mysteries of men.
And so we jailed them.
We harmed them.
And, in turn, they harmed themselves.
Speaker, it is the first responsibility of a government to keep people safe.
But the government didn’t keep LGBTI people safe.
The government invalidated their humanity and cast them into a nightmare.
And those who live today are the survivors of nothing less than a campaign of destruction, led by the might of the state.

The fact is: these laws cast a dark and paralysing pall over everyone who ever felt like they were different.
The fact is: these laws represented nothing less than official, state-sanctioned homophobia ...
And we wonder why, Speaker – we wonder why gay and lesbian and bi and trans teenagers are still the target of a red-hot hatred.

 The full text.