Japan Times reports, over the course of six years from 2012 to 2018, one private support center said it received over 100 calls to its hotline service from LGBTQ+ people upset about being outed.
Many of them said they were outed by someone they told in confidence.In June 2015, a male student at Hitotsubashi University law school died by suicide after being outed to a group of nine friends on a messaging app when a classmate insensitively wrote, “It’s impossible for me to hide the fact that.