# It's National Coming Out Day- so who isn't straight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738 "2001-10-11T04:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/1 "2001-10-11T04:27:36Z")
Since October 11 has, for reasons unbeknownst to me, been designated National Coming Out Day, I thought it warranted a zippy new thread wherein I could shock you all by saying: [sub]My name is Andy and… um… I like girls.[/sub] Anyone else feel like coming out? \ ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/2 "2001-10-11T04:30:38Z")
_sniffle_ My first thread I ever started here at the SDMB was a Happy National Coming Out Day thread last year. And not a single soul posted, IIRC. Hate to disappoint, but I’m only half a queer. 😉 Happy National Coming Out Day! ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/3 "2001-10-11T04:31:50Z")
Top or bottom half? 'Cause either way, I don’t really mind… ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/4 "2001-10-11T04:32:47Z")
My name is NWR, uh, Amy, and I’m queer. Queer like a sixtynine dollar bill. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/5 "2001-10-11T04:36:38Z")
Hey, i’d like to come out too! My name is Barry and i like…like boys! ---
**Author:** ![Canby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Canby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/6 "2001-10-11T04:39:28Z")
I _always_ forget about this day! Good thing I made it here early. Oh…and I like to kiss girls. ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/7 "2001-10-11T04:45:35Z")
Despite my experimental past, I’m heterosexual. Despite my chemical-laden past, I’m clean & sober. Despite my record, I am thoroughly law-abiding. But goddammit, I am NOT _STRAIGHT!!!_ I even hate the word “straight.” Call me a child of the 60’s, which I suppose I am, but that word conjures up all the loathesome narrow-minded, ignorant, repressive, fascist concepts that I despise. Call me crazy. Call me a hippie. Call me at 4 in the morning. But do NOT call me _straight._ ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/8 "2001-10-11T04:45:57Z")
Hi, my name is James and _who baby_ do I like boys. Girls too for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/9 "2001-10-11T04:48:58Z")
My name is Andy and I am a homo. If you don’t like it, go find some other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/10 "2001-10-11T04:52:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\* > Hate to disappoint, but I’m only half a queer. 😉 > \*\* Semi-carnally? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/11 "2001-10-11T04:57:21Z")
I bend a little yes. A threesome should be just that…a threesome. ---
**Author:** ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/12 "2001-10-11T05:03:30Z")
Hmmm… how can I turn this into a Flirt Thread[sub]tm[/sub] Oh did I say that “out” loud? er…uh count me in with the queers! ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/13 "2001-10-11T05:11:55Z")
Oh! Oh! Me! Me ! Me! My name’s Sonya. I like girls. :😁: And actually I’m pretty sure that I’m going to come Out to my parents this weekend. It’s my college’s Family Weekend–and goddess bless 'em for always schedualing it near [Nat. Coming Out Day](http://www.hrc.org/ncop/ncod/index.asp)–so my parents are coming up to see me, and I’ve been wanting to do this for a while… I’m moderately nervous. I know that my parents won’t freak out over it, and goodness grascious, it _can’t_ be much of a surprise. I’m 22, and I’ve never had a boyfriend, and nobody in my family has ever, ever asked me _why_ I didn’t have a boyfriend, so I’m guessing that they already know and they’re just waiting for me to make some kind of official announcement. And I’ve got rainbow this and pink triangle that, so it’s not even like I’m actively hiding it. I just haven’t said the big lesbian word yet. All the same. I’ve been kinda butterflied nervous all week. I’m not quite sure how to go about this. Do the queer dopers have any advice for this coming out newbie? ---
**Author:** ![quietgirldownthehall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quietgirldownthehall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quietgirldownthehall)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/14 "2001-10-11T05:12:26Z")
I am a homosexual. \ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/15 "2001-10-11T05:13:49Z")
I like boys AND girls. Though I’m somewhat thinking that I will soon be off the market if all goes as I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/16 "2001-10-11T05:14:33Z")
I am happily bisexual. ---
**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 11, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/17 "2001-10-11T05:20:48Z")
[judy tenuta impression] I like boys who wear my clothes And spank me with a garden hose I like boys who feed me grapes And shake their buns like big sex apes! I like boys in boarding schools Who drill me with their power tools I like boys with ruby-red lips, Buffed-up bodies and child-bearing hips! Boys! Boys! I like the Boys! Boys! _On your knees!_ Boys! Boys! I like the Boys! Boys! _Do me please!_ [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/18 "2001-10-11T05:24:28Z")
I really can’t say much to follow **matt** , but I’ve always been what you might call a “people person.” ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/19 "2001-10-11T05:24:58Z")
I’m Bi-poly but not bi-polar, I have papers that say so! ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/20 "2001-10-11T05:34:29Z")
Another blissfully bisexual checking in. “I’m only half queer. On my mother’s side, I think.” Oh what the hell…anyone wanna celebrate by coming out of their shirt? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738.md?page=2)