Comments on: Coming Out: Want the World to Know?

By: Sharon E Friedenbach

Sharon E Friedenbach — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:15:18 +0000

Abby T Miller – You and me both.
With the reading, that is.
And the being homos.
…This is the part where I stop talking.

By: Abby T Miller

Abby T Miller — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:16:13 +0000

‘Bout time we homos got some love up in here.

Even though I read this column pseudo-religiously as it is.

By: Jessi Knowles

Jessi Knowles — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:02:14 +0000

Thanks. Iowa…Idaho…I mean, they’re basically the same state, right?

Just kidding! Iowa has corn fields. Which is infinitely better than a bathroom-cruising senator.

By: Fact Check

Fact Check — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:57:44 +0000

yay fixed.

By: Fact Check

Fact Check — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:52:05 +0000

Larry Craig is from Idaho.

By: Paul Schrodt

Paul Schrodt — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:03:50 +0000

Coming out is both much more complex and much less dramatic than most people make it seem. What stresses gay people by and large is not just how other people will perceive them when they are “out,” but how they perceive themselves. Outside or inside the closet, any gay person goes through rituals of self-deception and fools himself about his own identity–how masculine/feminine he is, who he perceives as a sexual object, and to what extent he is part of some “gay” social group. What’s funny is, in most cases I would bet the actual process of coming out is least confusing or stunning for the people on the receiving end of the “Hey, by the way, I’m gay” conversation.