The first National Coming Out Day was organized by the Human Rights Campaign on October 11, 1988. Philadelphia activists celebrated on October 22 with a day-long series of performances and workshops.

Click the image below to read the Triangle’s 1988 report on the event, and read about the history of National Coming Out Day from the Human Rights Campaign.

If you like your humor historical and your pranks in print, then check out our online exhibition, Acute Angles: A Survey of Satire in the Triangle.

The exhibition highlights sixty years of Drexel students’ mockery and madness, on topics from tuition, student life and the infamous “Drexel Shaft.”

Be sure to check out this year’s satirical Triangle, the 2009 Rectangle. (Also available in PDF.)