Coming out of the closet

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My friend Craig used to go with "straight not." Not the most elegant solution, but it had its uses.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

my Dad assumed I was gay until I was about 17

I had a friend who had to come out to his parents as straight... twice. (And of course at the time -- when we were teenagers -- I had a massive crush on him. See kids, you should listen to your parents!)

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

'It's the person, not the gender'? Like individual people are so fuckin' important, tell that to the bag of DNA and neurotransmitters telling you what to do. The amount of ways ppl try and convince themselves that they're not just another resource-eating reproductive species is truly amazing!

― dave q, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did that Spark test now (couldn't access it from work!) and it said I am 68% gay and the typical lesbian is 45% gay. I surprised as I'm a really girly-girl, well, maybe not actually.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

That test suddenly seems lind of stupid. 45% gay= lesbian? I can't remember what I got, 10% more then most straight guys, something like that.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

or KIND of. I usually find online tests astonishingly perceptive and accurate, obviously

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am probably the last person on the block to know, but I am waiting for Dan to announce where he falls on the Kinsey scale.

Of course, I don't actually REMEMBER the Kinsey scale...

Anyway, I'm a tiresome, sarcastic straight boy.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, yeah, I figured that much, Dan, but the great thing about the Kinsey scale is its Pitchforkian shades of grey. As I remember, 1 is "as straight as the theoretical line intersecting any two theoretical points in Euclidean space" and 6 is "a big flaming sack of gay". But you are supposed to tell your impossibly specific rating on this Cartesian reduction of sexuality -- "I'm a 2.3" or "I'm a 5.6" or "I'm pi! I win!" and give your terrifying admission as to why you're not a rock-solid 1 or 6.

That's the fun of the game, and why that Kinsey perv came up with it.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a test for this somewhere on the net, isn't there?

Anyway, the phrase "big flaming sack of gay" is being incorporated into my personal lexicon as I type.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

I can't stand the closet or even being around people who are in one. I grew up around a lot of conservative Catholic people. I am not gay but my parents are really gay friendly and encouraged people to be who they are, we can't stand being around these fearful and repressed religious people. We left our church because of it when I was a kid. I hate being nice just so Aunt Ruthie doesn't get offended. It's so bad that my family avoids religion altogether. I have to live and work in a very liberal community, or I am unhappy. There is no point in denying who you are, if you stuff it down, it comes back up in other ways!

― Department of Energy Department (u s steel), Sunday, 19 July 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

1955 film of a college student's "I want to change my homosexuality" therapy session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8NDuSYQfOA

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link

omg the advice to read Plato! amazing!

― the tune was space, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link

yes, that got quite a few chuckles at the Lincoln Center screening last night!

that kid would be about 78 to 81yo now. I wonder what happened.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link

five years pass...

What are your stories? Here's mine.

Of course, it's not one story.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link

I don't have a reference point for the story, but your writing, as always, is wonderful.

― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link

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