BRUSSELS – Coming out to your friends and family as a gay teenager is never easy, but a new French-language brochure aims to help young gay people do just that.

‘Le Monde de William’ (The World of William), published by a not for profit group called Ex Aequo, is a comic strip interspersed with the testimonies of real people.

“All teenagers have certain phases of development in common,” said Nancy Peltier, who is overseeing the marketing and distribution of the brochure.

“(But) those who raise questions about their own sexual orientation find themselves in particularly acute situations of vulnerability,” she added.

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What’s with all the coming out news (here, here… )? Is it International Coming Out Week or something and I just don’t know about it?