Sunday, December 30, 2012

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Talk:come out
Dec 31st 2012, 02:57

come out for

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I haven't time at present to follow up and add the sense and reference quoted in the following 'pedia quote, but I see the OED2+ has several cites of similar usage at around the same time, ie ''come out for'' = ''publicly support'', which it suggests are precursors of ''come out as [gay]'' -- if anyone else has time, please do so.

From [[w:Helen Keller#Political activities]]:
:At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him
::1912: {{cite web| last =Keller | first =Helen | title =How I Became a Socialist | url =http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/12_11_03.htm | accessdate = August 27, 2007}}
Thanks [[User:Enginear|--Eng<font color="green">in</font>ear]] 02:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

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