# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/41 "2001-10-11T12:33:53Z")
Another bi guy checking in. Girls and boys, everybody’s fabulous! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/42 "2001-10-11T12:56:53Z")
Sex with women is fun. Sex with men is fun. Sex with transexuals is fun. sex with crossdressers is fun. Hell, just call me _omnisexual_. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/43 "2001-10-11T13:09:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lee \* > My former boss used to say Canadian instead of gay. She did it not because she assumed that Canadians are more likely to be gay. Waal, I doon’t knoow aboot that, me trout. > [@](#): > > “Well, they do seem to be everywhere, and as far as I can tell they look just like us.” But then, of course, there are the accents…! 🙂 Oh, and another song: I am what I am, I don’t want praise, I don’t want pity I bang my own drum, some think it’s noise, I think it’s pretty, And so what if I love each bauble and each bangle? Why not try to see things from a different angle? Your life is a sham, Till you can shout out, “I am what I am!” I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses I deal my own deck, sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces, It’s one life, and there’s no return and no deposit, One life, so it’s time to open up your closet, Life’s not worth a damn, Till you can shout out, “I am what I am!” ---
**Author:** ![Soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soda)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/44 "2001-10-11T13:47:46Z")
Well, I know what I like and I know what I prefer. Women are nice. Men are nice. But men have dicks, and I’m a huge fan of dicks. OTOH, women have breasts… ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/45 "2001-10-11T13:51:30Z")
Damn it, Mistress Dryad always get there before I do! So, yeah, what she said. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/46 "2001-10-11T13:51:52Z")
Well I’m straight, but not narrow-minded! So happy coming-out or being-out day! Also, we used to play a game called “Dead, Gay, or Canadian?” You know: “Lorne Green! Dead, Gay, or Canadian?” Put in whatever name you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/47 "2001-10-11T13:56:57Z")
**Hamadryad** , you’re not a slut if you get money for it. You’re a slut if you get **shoes** for it. Oh. I seem to be in the wrong thread here… somebody already stole my line (“I may be straight, but I’m not narrow”) backs out slowly… pretty people, though… they seem nice… and they dress well… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/48 "2001-10-11T14:21:40Z")
Whenever I wonder if I’m bi some attractive woman goes by and I completely forget that guys exist. It doesn’t work the other way around, so I guess I’m not. But the rest of you, go ahead and have a messy-good time. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/49 "2001-10-11T14:24:36Z")
Happy Coming Out day to all! Me? Married w/ child. Read into that anything you like, and there will probably a bit of truth to it. But I just had to say that since reading this thread, the Jonathan Richman song [I’m Straight](http://people.we.mediaone.net/karpp/jojo/ml.htm#straight) has been on repeat play in my head. _“I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny. Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place. See he’s stoned, hippie Johnny. Now get this, I’m straight and I want to take his place.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/50 "2001-10-11T14:54:05Z")
…National Outies Day? What a disgusting, horrible, bigoted concept. Having a day that celebrates only people with “outie” bellybuttons is divisive and wrong! In this world we live in, aren’t there already too many ways to seperate us from our fellow human beings? Shouldn’t we celebrate the diversity of bellybuttons of all shapes and si… What? It’s National COMING OUT day? That’s a totally different thing! Good lord. I can’t argue with _that_! Nevermind. Fenris Letillia ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/51 "2001-10-11T14:55:16Z")
😃 * * * “You really are an old queen.” - **andygirl** ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/52 "2001-10-11T15:03:03Z")
Hello, my name is Marty and I’d like one from column A and two from column B. ;0 Guess my [coming out](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=91383) thread was a bit premature, eh? Well, hop over bask in my glorious new bisexuality. Happy Coming Out Day, all! ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/53 "2001-10-11T15:04:48Z")
Don’t you hate when you hit Submit instead of Preview? ---
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/54 "2001-10-11T15:43:48Z")
Is that one of them sexual mettefores? We don’t hold for them 'round here. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/55 "2001-10-11T16:33:14Z")
Count me in. I never really thought about my sexuality when I was growing up. I didn’t date until I was a senior in highschool, at 18. The thing is, I don’t really think of people as their gender. Or their outside looks, either, when it comes to that. It’s the person inside that attracts me. I’ve been with my girl for 8 1/2 years or so. We were highschool sweethearts, and I couldn’t imagine my life without her. We’re both in for the long haul, and I’ve never been happier. ---
**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, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/56 "2001-10-11T17:04:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrVisible \* > \*\*Oh, and in the interest of turning this into a Flirt Thread, I’m gonna declare that any gay guy named Andy who’s seriously into John Crowley novels could take me any time he wanted to. I know this, because I’m gay, my name is Andy, I love John Crowley’s writing, and I do me all the time. \*\* Really? What a fascinating coincidence! You know, I’ve never tried to maintain a Flirt Thread while I’m at work. Actually, I’ve never taken part in one at all. ::starts to unbutton **Mr. Visible’s** shirt:: But maybe we can sit on that couch in the back and discuss it? Besides, there are probably folks who want to step up to the mike, so we should get off the podium. ---
**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 11, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/57 "2001-10-11T17:34:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Enderw24** _ > > Semi-carnally? Cyrill Connelley? Esprix, whistling [sub]Oh, and I’m gay. DUH.[/sub] ---
**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 11, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/58 "2001-10-11T17:43:24Z")
ARGH! Damn you, **aegypt** , for knowing Monty Python references faster than I do! 😃 > [@](#): > > Singing: > > La-dee-dee, one, two, three > Eric the half-a-bee! And **lee** , the “Canadian” reference has been around for many, many years - just another code word when in mixed company. Did I mention I was gay, too? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/59 "2001-10-11T18:00:37Z")
matt, you left out the first verse: > [@](#): > > I am what I am, I am my own special creation > So come take a look, give me the hook, or the ovation > It’s my world that I want to have a little pride in > My world and it’s not a place I have to hide in > Life’s not worth a damn 'til you can say, “hey world, I am what I am!” From _La Cage Aux Folles_ for those who are unfamiliar. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738/60 "2001-10-11T19:35:07Z")
Hey, I’m not straight either! I got a long way to go before “I’m gay” though, you know? But I’m getting there. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-national-coming-out-day-so-who-isnt-straight/86738.md?page=4)