Just ask any gay person you know: the hardest bit about being gay is actually having to let other people know you are, and although you can always count on your friends, it can be a complicated topic to deal with, especially when you are in your teens. Thus is why EmptyClosets.

com is such good news: a series of forums for GLBT young people to support and give advice to one another and share experiences and anxieties. In order to join the EmptyClosets.com community, you need to be 13 or older, and you can join to discuss your own gender issues, or maybe if you think a friend, lover or relative is trying to come out of the closet, to give him/her a hand with it. A very exciting bit about this community is that you can create a blog and/or photo gallery in the site to share your experiences at coming out, but you need to have made at least 10 posts in the forum; unlike other GLBT communities online, EmptyClosets.com is not about dating and being hot or not, as there are quite strict laws on using the forums and threads to hook up with other users, as the whole idea is that one should help other community members with their coming out process, so that in a way this site works like AA and other community support groups.