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I am heterosexual, and have never really needed to come out as that. It's the assumed, default position; that confers heaps of privilege on me, and means that I don't have to spend large chunks of my life explaining my sexuality in tedious detail to pruriently interested parties.
I'm also cisgender; not only have I never needed to come out as that, but I'm sure that the majority of my similarly cisgender work colleagues (and probably many of my friends) have never even heard of the term and would question the need for it if I tried to explain it.
I wish that my gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender friends who have been today posting coming out posts could make similar posts to this. I hope that one day, future generations will be able to. Even if things were to change tomorrow, people who have already come out would still have those experiences in their past; and even the smoothest coming out story usually carries some anxiety in the lead-in.
(I'm also both kinky and poly, which are not the default assumptions, but that's another story.)
I'm also cisgender; not only have I never needed to come out as that, but I'm sure that the majority of my similarly cisgender work colleagues (and probably many of my friends) have never even heard of the term and would question the need for it if I tried to explain it.
I wish that my gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender friends who have been today posting coming out posts could make similar posts to this. I hope that one day, future generations will be able to. Even if things were to change tomorrow, people who have already come out would still have those experiences in their past; and even the smoothest coming out story usually carries some anxiety in the lead-in.
(I'm also both kinky and poly, which are not the default assumptions, but that's another story.)