800,000 People Came Out This Year On Facebook

Amidst status updates about what folks had for lunch or who they’re voting for, something big is happening on Facebook in 2015. The company reports over 6 million people have come out on the social media site as LGBT including 800,000 over the past year. 

Facebook released a statement on National Coming Out Day:

Over the past year, approximately 800,000 Americans updated their profile to express a same-gender attraction or custom gender. Further, not only has the total number of Americans who have come out on Facebook risen dramatically, but so has the number coming out each day. As the chart demonstrates, the number of people on Facebook coming out per day is on track to be three times what it was a year ago.

The company also notes that, “Additionally, in the days following the June 26 Supreme Court decision, we saw more than 26 million people display a rainbow filter on their profile picture.”