Like an OP, you mean? 
[looks down at her blouse] “Oh, dear, I’m coming out!” [hastily re-buttons]
Zoing!
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I’m coming out
so you better get this party started
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Come out, come out,
wherever you are,
and meet the young lady
who fell from the stars.
I’m a male lesbian…
That’s not going to win you any friends on the board, especially in an andygirl thread.
I was walking by two women on the street. As I passed, one said to the other, “Hallelujah, I’m a lesbian.” So I said Mazel Tov.
I’m bisexual.
In other blindingly shocking news…water is wet, ice is cold, and the sun is a mass of incandescent gas; a gigantic nuclear furnace.
I want to be bisexual but as of yet have still had no sucess in changing my orientation.
And none of those groups that advertise that they can help will.
Oh, and I have a really cruddy Kinetics midterm on Monday. Its going to suck.
Groan. Here we go again.
Dopers,
As some of you may know, October 11 is National Coming Out Day, wherein trans, lesbian, bisexual, gay, and otherwise non-heterosexual people as well as their allies unite together to promote visibility and share our stories.
I’m moderating a coming out stories event at my college tonight, and in the spirit of the day I would like to announce several things:
- I am a lesbian. Woo.
- As hard as it is for me to admit this in a public forum, I need to accept that I really enjoy the band Oingo Boingo.
Kudos and huzzah to any Doper who wishes to participate in today’s events in some capacity. Anyone have something that they want to come out as? Stories they want to share?
A bit of my coming out story that I want to mention is when I told my father. I was 16 at the time, and it had been so painfully obvious for such a long time that all he said to me was, “Yes, I know. I’ve known for years. Have you finished washing the car?”
:mad: :o 
:eek: 
From today’s copy of the Hollywood Reporter regarding films opening this weekend and predicting success/failure:
“Young women, the college crowd and a sprinkling of gays are more likely to gravitate toward the R-rated “The Rules of Attraction,” director Roger Avary’s Lions Gate adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel.”
I’m proud to be sprinkled!
I’m a geek.
Please don’t think me insenstive to gay, lesbian, and bi folks - I’m not. In fact, this aspect of my personality makes me understand a little of what they must have to go through at some point.
Have I been beaten for being a geek? Yep.
Have I been tormented regularly for liking what I like? Yep.
Have I had to hide reading material or something else from others? Yep.
Have I tormented other geeks or even helped people torment me in an effort to “pass” as non- or less-geeky? Yep.
Have I had to feign interest in some things and lack of interest in other things to “fit in”? Yep.
Have I watched friends get tormented for geekiness and not done anything about it because I didn’t want to get tormented to? Yep.
Have I often felt my family was ashamed of me for my interests and wished I could be a different way? Yep.
I did all these things until a point in high school when I said, you know what? Screw this. I’m a geek. I play D&D. I read comic books. I like Doctor Who and Star Wars. And people can just deal with this. It’s not like they hadn’t figured it out all along anyway, so who am I fooling by pretending otherwise?
So there you go. I’m a geek. Get over it.
Well, I’ve been out for years in most capacities but my news is this. My girlfriend and I are having a commitment ceremony tomorrow evening. Family and friends have flown in and it’s going to be wonderful sharing the day with them.
=)
I don’t know Oingo Boingo, but I heard Chumba Wumba on the radio on my way into work today.
In the spirit of the day, I’d just like to send thoughts to a sister of a friend, who came out to him last week. He’s also gay and his parents are a-ok with that, so I think she’s got a pretty supportive family, once she comes out to them.
Sorry the closest I come is being riped on by a trans-sexual lesbian… I’m still wondering how that works exactly…
Anyway have fun, I’m gonna have to e-mail my old college roomie and ask him how things are going with his boyfriend.
Semantic, congrats!
What’s this in my pocket??
Oh my, a three dollar bill.
Well, let’s see, besides being a flaming queer boy (I came out about THAT one years ago, sugar) I also:
Believe strongly in Nuclear power generation (assuming we can ever get past the greed, corruption and graft that makes it unsafe, uneconomical and generally unacceptable…)
Support a well managed timber harvesting industry (I know, in the northwest, this is tanatamount to saying that I eat Spotted Owl for dinner)
Like, and ride, Harley-Davidson motorcycles (this, combined with the fact in the first paragraph, makes me VERY popular amongst homophobic bikers)
Don’t know as much as I should about computer networking - which is somewhat problematic, considering that it’s becoming a MUCH bigger part of my job.
Like bands like Boston, Foghat, AC-DC, Styx, etc.
Enjoy watching NOVA on PBS (OK, so I came out about THAT one years ago too)
I’m still in the closet about most of the rest of my life, so I’ll leave it there. 
I’m… flexible. That’s how I define myself. I’ve had boyfriends and I’ve had girlfriends. I don’t mention it a lot because really it’s not a big thing (although given the way I look most people assume I’m a lesbian… until they meet my boyfriend). But on Coming Out Day I’m proud to say I’m flexible