Ten Problems With Being Gay
1. There's the whole "coming out" thing If you're gay then for every interpersonal relationship you have, you have to store the extra piece of information - "do they know?". Friends, relatives, people you know at work. At any given time it's likely that some of them will know you're gay and some won't. Even if you're completely open about it, and have no issue with people knowing, you still have that rather weird moment when you first drop it into conversation. You make a reference to your partner by first name, or gender-specific pronoun and then everyone is briefly a bit awkward, and the person you've just told will undoubtedly make some comment just so you know they are perfectly "OK" with it. Something about gay friends they already have or something, probably. Even if you do it in a nice subtle way so as to try to avoid making it into a "big thing" then you have that moment of doubt. "They didn'