Reply #20: You're really on the wrong message board to ask 'who cares?' [View All]

[kweerwolf]

Most of us who post he are members of a marginalized group. For us it's a cause for celebration when someone tosses off the shackles of the homophobic/heterosexist dominant society and publicly affirms that he or she is "one of us."

But from your response, I'd venture a guess that you probably wouldn't understand that since you make the assumption in your response that coming out is the same as one's sexuality and sexual exploits. Being gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender is a matter of identity. It's who we are 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year ... not just whatever small portion of that time we spend engaged in "sexual exploits" - just as heterosexuals aren't just considered heterosexuals during the times they are engaging in sexual exploits with their opposite sex partners.