[Ed25568]

First, I’m not a fan of advertising your orientation, straight or gay. But I have many friends and coworkers who are gay, and I have to say that on the whole, they ARE more overt about their sexuality than straight people I know. Sure, I know some very overtly straight women and men, but that percentage is much higher with my homosexual acquaintances.

I always thought that maybe this behavior came with ‘clearing the hurdle,’ because it’s very hard to come out of the closet. So there could be a sense of ‘look at me!’ at work there. There also may be a sort of ‘preemptive strike’ going on. There are still people out there who are shocked, or at least momentarily stunned, when they realize the person they’re talking to is gay, so they may be merely getting a potentially awkward situation out of the way by being so open. These are just guesses. But, here’s an item of interest: a co-worker of mine who is a lesbian caused quite a stir when she threatened to quit because the company refused to announce via internal memo that she and her partner were adopting a baby. She went on a major discrimination rampage, making the entire company feel very uncomfortable. The problem was, they don’t announce that for anybody, straight or gay. So this also may be a case of a few bad eggs spoiling the whole dozen for you.

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Name : Ed25568, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 30, City : State, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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