National Coming Out Day (NCOD), the day set aside to encourage bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender (BGLT) people to be open about who they are, is October 11. To a great extent it has been the coming out of individuals to their family, friends, and coworkers that has led to steady reductions in the seemingly global condemnation of BGLTs. In celebration of NCOD, Interweave, our church's group for BGLTs and their allies, hosts the service and welcomes to the pulpit the Rev. Ernest Pipes, who will discuss his history of officiating at same-sex couple weddings long before most BGLTs even dreamed of same-sex marriages as a possibility.