There are just a few days left to catch this compelling exhibit, ‘COMING OUT: 25 Portraits – 25 Personal Stories by Simon J. Webb’.  The images were made over a ten-year period as a collection of portraits that Webb took from sessions for British queer arts quarterly Jack The Lad.  Even though his subjects were a collection of uniquely talented queer people from the creative arts section, each of them had encountered the dilemma of having to come out as gay in order to live their personal and professional life both openly and authentically. It’s a decision that is seldom taken lightly by anyone in the queer community, the potential for rejection from loved ones, bullying at school or discrimination in the workplace still being a very real fear for many, and whilst these portraits show it definitely does get better, it is hoped that the addition of audio recordings recounting the personal coming out stories that accompany these portraits will serve as a reminder that this unavoidable trauma is still a process that seems cruelly reserved exclusively for members of the queer community.