Josh Healey - Coming Out Straight
A friend recently sent me a link to this video, and I think it sums up the feelings of many gay people.
Straight people come out all the time. They mention their husbands and wives, their girlfriends and boyfriends, dates they've gone on, their exes. They rarely announce, "Hey, I'm straight. I just wanted you to know." Coming out for an LGBT individual is "supposed" to be this kind of announcement. And even if I choose to come out by mentioning my partner, much as a straight person would, I hesitate, and I question whether I should have done it. This is because people assume that a person is straight until shown otherwise, unless the person meets certain stereotypes.
So what if people had to come out as straight the way that people are expected to come out as gay? Josh Healey takes a stab at the situation, at least for his family. It would be very different for my family - very, very different. But the comparison holds true, I think.
How do you come out, consciously or unconsciously? And what have been reactions to that?
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