LGBTQ Employees at Grey Share Their Personal Stories to Celebrate National Coming Out Day

The agency teamed up with VideoOut for the program

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Grey teamed up with VideoOut, an organization that’s aiming to have the world’s largest library of coming-out stories, to celebrate National Coming Out Day today.

A short video called “Grey for National Coming Out Day” features LGBTQ employees from the agency sharing their own stories of coming out, stories of difficulty, awkwardness, humor, sincerity and relief.

Account supervisor Patrick Ryan’s sister almost crashed her car when he came out to her, and account executive Jacob Cochran’s mother was just relieved to learn he wasn’t failing any of his classes in college.

“It was very hard for me to just put my foot down and say I was bi, I date men and I date women,” said Alexandra Hsie, an assistant integrated producer at Grey’s Townhouse.

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