Editing Coming out (section)

==== Government officials and political candidates ====
*In 1983, [[United States House of Representatives|US House representative]] [[Gerry Studds]] came out as a homosexual during the [[1983 congressional page sex scandal]].
*In 1987, [[Barney Frank]], a United States House representative, publicly came out as gay,<ref>{{cite news |title=Representative Frank Discloses He Is Homosexual |date=31 May 1987 |access-date=19 October 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/31/us/representative-frank-discloses-he-is-homosexual.html |periodical=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206074505/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DE163AF932A05756C0A961948260 |archive-date=6 December 2008}}</ref> the second member of the [[Massachusetts]] delegation to the [[United States Congress]] to do so.
*In 1988, [[Svend Robinson]] was the first member of [[House of Commons of Canada]] to come out.
*In 1999, Australian senator [[Brian Greig]] came out as being gay in his [[maiden speech]] to parliament, the first politician to do so in that country.
*In 2004, [[Governor of New Jersey|New Jersey governor]] [[Jim McGreevey]] announced his decision to resign and publicly came out as "a gay American".<ref name="affair">{{cite news |last=Kohen |first=Yael |date=13 August 2004 |title=McGreevey to Quit, Declares 'I Am a Gay American' |work=[[The New York Sun]] |url=http://www.nysun.com/article/245?page_no=2 |access-date=10 March 2008 |archive-date=13 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213070202/https://www.nysun.com/new-york/mcgreevey-to-quit-declares-i-am-a-gay-american/245/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="iamagayamerican">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/12/mcgreevey.transcript/ |title=McGreevey: 'I am a gay American' |work=[[CNN]] |date=13 August 2004 |access-date=10 March 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417032311/http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/12/mcgreevey.transcript/ |archive-date=17 April 2008}}</ref> He acknowledged having had an [[extramarital affair]] with a man, [[Golan Cipel]], an Israeli citizen and veteran of the [[Israeli Defense Forces]]. As McGreevey had appointed him as the New Jersey [[homeland security]] adviser, he had created a conflict of interest with the affair.