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Assessing to which degree the outer goes allows insight into the goal striven towards.

Most outers target those who support decisions and further policy, both religious and secular, which discriminate against gay people while they themselves live a clandestine gay existence.

A " truism to people active in the gay movement that the greatest impediments to homosexuals ' progress often not heterosexuals, but closeted homosexuals ," said San Francisco journalist Randy Shilts.