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A coming-out ceremony is a ceremony celebrated in various settings, especially religious edifices, for the purpose of formalizing the process of "coming out of the closet," or publicly affirming one's sexual orientation or gender identity. It is also known as a gender-affirming ceremony or renaming ceremony when affirming gender transitions.

Various approaches have been devised within the history of LGBT rights advocacy. Both Jay Michaelson and Rabbi Shoshanah King-Tornberg have put forward Jewish-framed ceremonies (with Michaelson describing the ceremony as brit hitvada'ut (lit. "ceremony of coming-out") meant to reflect Jewish history and rhetoric.

For Unitarian Universalist congregations, ceremonies such as those developed by individuals like Danny Enright