# It's National Coming Out Day. FYI, I'm a total homo. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895 "2003-10-11T20:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/21 "2003-10-12T02:11:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\* > [sub](a man with a vagina)[/sub] \*\* [sub]and breasts[/sub] Hi, world. S’up? ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/22 "2003-10-12T03:05:11Z")
s’up, Dao? Today it was proposed to me that bisexuals should embrace the word ‘sliders’. I kind of like it and felt like putting it out there. Also, I was in a big gay poetry slam. Egad. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/23 "2003-10-12T06:15:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Please, sugar, I’m a Kinsey 7! \*\* As Kinsey’s scale went from 0 to 6, I can’t imagine where this puts you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/24 "2003-10-12T06:58:58Z")
And of course none of us has ever fantasized about where it could put him… ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/25 "2003-10-12T07:36:39Z")
I’m bisexual as well…that felt kinda good to say :-p ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/26 "2003-10-12T08:09:30Z")
In this area sometimes it’s difficult to find a safe place to say it. If you’re ever in the SWVA area, **xgxlx** , do come by. I have a safe group of friends. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/27 "2003-10-12T10:54:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by superstar \* > \*\*Already ‘out’, but it doesn’t hurt to say it again!!! > > Don’t think we have this day in OZ, and don’t think it would make any difference anyway. We’re liberated down here but not to that degree! > > We have the Gay Mardi Gras, which is a pretty big excuse for a party Gay or not, I guess if you march in that you’re ‘outing’ yourself. And if someone see’s you on TV (yep we televise it) you’re ‘out’!!! \*\* Well FWIW, October is Pride Month in Western Australia. :mad:🆒:):p:eek::(😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/28 "2003-10-12T13:48:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > \*\*Today it was proposed to me that bisexuals should embrace the word ‘sliders’. I kind of like it and felt like putting it out there. \*\* “Sliders?” Guh? I dun understand. We are in a defunct sci-fi series with Gimli? ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/29 "2003-10-12T13:58:56Z")
**Esprix** , do you have something you want to say to us? ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/30 "2003-10-12T15:50:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Priam \* > \*\*Uhh yeah… > I’m gay. I hear the shocked gasps already. \*\* But you can’t be gay. You have 50 children! Now, that one boy of yours. He claims he has a girlfriend, but no one really likes her, I’d keep an eye out on him. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/31 "2003-10-12T17:27:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*In this area sometimes it’s difficult to find a safe place to say it. > > If you’re ever in the SWVA area, **xgxlx** , do come by. I have a safe group of friends. \*\* Oh there’s plenty of safe people around here too. Really the only people that don’t know is my family…and there’s no reason for them to know really. ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/32 "2003-10-12T17:46:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \* > \*\*But you can’t be gay. You have 50 children! > > Now, that one boy of yours. He claims he has a girlfriend, but no one really likes her, I’d keep an eye out on him. \*\* Hey I’m Greek. Its all cool. As for Paris… I always suspected he was a nancyboy. But thats all right… I slipped Achilles in through a postern gate and asked him to have a few words and told him I love him no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/33 "2003-10-12T18:14:11Z")
'Nother ‘Slider’ checking in. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/34 "2003-10-12T18:29:50Z")
I actually came out two days before National Coming Out Day. I have such a crappy sense of timing. And I’m also really, really bad at explaining things. My best friend now thinks I’m gay. I’m not. I’m bi. But it feels good to say. So let’s say it again. I’m bisexual. I think boys are pretty. I think girls are pretty. _shyly waves flag_ I’m really not good at this. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/35 "2003-10-12T23:30:53Z")
We don’t have to be _good_ at it, we just have to be fabulous. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/36 "2003-10-12T23:47:04Z")
Shocked. Shocked, I am. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/37 "2003-10-13T03:12:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\*“Sliders?” Guh? I dun understand. > > We are in a defunct sci-fi series with Gimli? \*\* Or, possibly, a plate of pint-sized hamburgers. I’d rather be called “bi.” And I didn’t miss National Coming Out Day, I’m fashionably late for it. Really, really fashionably late. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/38 "2003-10-13T03:25:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Loneraven \* > **I’m bisexual. I think boys are pretty. I think girls are pretty.** Whoa, if that’s the definition of bisexual, then I need to come out as well. 😃 I’m heterosexual and married, but polymorphously perverse. Can I hang out with you fabulous folks anyway? ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/39 "2003-10-13T04:39:23Z")
Also, I think that in honor of National Marriage Week or whatever that guy wants to call it we need to have lots of hot homo loving. Hello, ladies… ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895/40 "2003-10-13T05:26:53Z")
I am gay. Flamingly. But y’all knew that. Carry on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-fyi-im-a-total-homo/206895.md?page=3)