# It's National Coming Out Day! Anyone want to share something? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813 "2002-10-11T13:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jeeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jeeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeeves)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/41 "2002-10-12T07:45:12Z")
Whee! I’m late, but I am here! I am openly and flamingly gay! My partner and I are ashamed to admit that we like Seventh Heaven. Yes, it can be preachy, and completely avoids any controversial issues, but that family is even more fucked up than mine . 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/42 "2002-10-12T10:35:59Z")
I kiss boys. Oh, and I like it too. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/43 "2002-10-12T14:40:51Z")
To celebrate yesterday, I made the HRC logo into my 3D Flying Objects image at work. I also used the HRC Coming Out Rocks CD cover as my wallpaper. ---
**Author:** ![Badandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@Badandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badandi)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/44 "2002-10-12T15:07:37Z")
In…the…closet? What are these words you speak of. I can’t comprehend them all in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/45 "2002-10-12T15:51:04Z")
I am bisexual, but with one foot still in the door of exclusive hetersexuality. Let’s just say I’m a mostly straight, albeit somewhat effete male who finds a number of fellow males attractive – in _that_ way – but still thinks women rock a whole lot more than men. Still, give me a couple of months, and I’ll be comfortably swinging both ways. Wheeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/46 "2002-10-12T16:41:18Z")
I am bisexual. No, I still have not broken this to my relatives. I think I’m waiting for my protestant/catholic grandparents to die off first. Only two to go. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/47 "2002-10-12T17:16:51Z")
I’m not gay, but yesterday I was asked if I was, and by a talk-radio host, no less! OK, _maybe_ I should have seen it coming. I’d volunteered to go on a local talk radio show about everything and nothing in the hope that maybe I’d say something that would make someone want to hire me. I wore pants because I couldn’t find my favorite red skirt. About the second topic to get introduced as it happens was women covering football. I admitted to being feminist and argued in favor of women covering it. I also admitted off the air to being in my mid-30’s and never married. Still, just because I’m a feminist, wear pants at times, and have never married does not mean I’m gay, damn it! :Miscellaneous grumblings: While we’re sharing, I’m afraid I do have to admit I liked both _Knight Rider_ and _The A-Team_. No, I don’t have any taste in television. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/48 "2002-10-13T02:12:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I drink milk with pizza. I was raised to have milk with EVERY sitdownfamily meal. I can’t understand the stigma around having milk with pizza. What is it? Maybe it’s an after taste thing. That I understand. > [@](#): > > In…the…closet? What are these words you speak of. I can’t comprehend them all in the same sentence. In the BROOM CLOSET! Boo yah! I wish. Although there is that one Latin guy who I overheard being asked if he was gay… mmmm… Latin… I took Latin. Latin guys… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/49 "2002-10-13T02:38:45Z")
I’m…I’m…a straight Republican who firmly supports changing the laws to allow gay marriages. And, having that stanch on the issue, I’m in the position to say that there are a lot of nutcases in either party. I have fellow republicans who regard me with suspicion since how could you " support them without being one yourself?" (oh, I don’t know, since they’re human beings who _should_ have just a much right to commit to someone they love as a straight person does? Is it really **that** hard to understand?) and democrats who think that this one belief is the be-all, end-all of deciding which polical party you belong to, so how could I possibly vote for republicans? (How about my feelings on nearly every other issue falling into line with that platform?) It irritates me that the only people I can have rational dicussions on the topic, without it turning into a bizarre polical discussion, are my friends who are themselves gay or bi, and other straight friends who are also their friends as well. Anyway, happy coming out day to you all! Do they make cards? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/50 "2002-10-13T02:46:16Z")
I’m bisexual and engaged to a man… who wouldn’t necessarily mind bringing a third person in for a “test drive.” …and I don’t have a problem with it either. ---
**Author:** ![Lab2490](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lab2490](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lab2490)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/51 "2002-10-13T02:52:45Z")
I’m an athiest :: waits for mom 'n dad to disown her:: ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/52 "2002-10-13T05:22:59Z")
I’m anorexic, but I like it. I have a weird desire to spend Christmas Day alone this year sitting in a cheesy diner just to see how it feels. I also like Oingo Boingo. ---
**Author:** ![headchecked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@headchecked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headchecked)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/53 "2002-10-13T06:22:17Z")
I think we’re also overlooking that it was National Squirrel Awareness Week as well as Depression Screening Day on Thursday. That’s right, I am a depressed gay squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/54 "2002-10-13T19:52:57Z")
I guess it’s no longer National Coming Out Day. Oh well. I… uh… liked _Titanic_. All three times. ☹ Oh, how can I ever show my face here again? [sub]I’m also a gay atheist who REALLY hopes my parents don’t read this board.[/sub] That was oddly liberating. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/55 "2002-10-14T00:16:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > **I’m not gay, but yesterday I was asked if I was, and by a talk-radio host, no less! OK, _maybe_ I should have seen it coming. I’d volunteered to go on a local talk radio show about everything and nothing in the hope that maybe I’d say something that would make someone want to hire me.** [hijack] **cj** were you on the Doug Hoerth Friday Funtacular yesterday? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![FunGuy\_from\_Yuggoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FunGuy\_from\_Yuggoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FunGuy_from_Yuggoth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/56 "2002-10-14T19:04:17Z")
Okay. I’m gay and extremely drunk. Imagine the rainbow thing here. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/57 "2002-10-15T12:38:16Z")
[hijack continued] **tlw** , that was me, all right. How’d _you_ find the show? [/hijack] CJ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/58 "2002-10-15T18:41:02Z")
I like bad pop music and pretty much any kind of anime as long as there are bishies. Much happy bishies. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/59 "2002-10-16T11:05:17Z")
I like Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813/60 "2002-10-16T14:20:45Z")
I’m… …a 17-year-old atheist Mississippian femme who would really like to try a threesome (2 guys only, please!) and who really, really secretly would like my own strap-on. My best friend is a bisexual half-Dutch, half-Mexican Hare Krishna who is open to the threesome idea but isn’t so enthusiastic about the strap. Oh, and my favorite Disney movie is “Lady and the Tramp”. Too much information? 😉 .:Nichol:. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-anyone-want-to-share-something/131813.md?page=4)