John Amaechi's advice to people coming out...

OK, my profile on former NBA player John Amaechi, who publicly came out as a gay man in his new book "Man In The Middle," is scheduled to run in the sports section of the Los Angeles Daily News tomorrow (Sunday) so look for it on DailyNews.com.
Obviously, there was so much that John and I covered during our interview that it could not possibly make it into the article. He has this advice for anyone who is thinking about coming out: "Coming out is an individual journey. It’s not for other people to tell you. They can advise you but it’s not up to other people to tell you that you must do it. Find someone, one person that you can make a connection with who can help you. Find your voice, who can share your burden, who can be standing behind you
as support and then look from there. See how that emboldens you. If it’s your sister or your brother or your coach or your teamates or your parent or your guardian, see if telling that one person who you trust, see if that emboldens you to do more. That’s your journey.
It’s not for everybody, to scream from the rooftops. But I would say, it would be a joyous noise if people did."
To kids who mikght feel bad about themselves: "Just know that whatever might be said about you, there’s
nothing intrinsically dirty, evil, wrong about them. As hard as it is sometimes in the face of the comments and the words that come out - things that come from the pulpit sometimes and things that come from the gutter - try and steel themselves in the knowledge that only their choices will make them bad, not who they are intrinsically."
Well said!