Wacky adventures in coming out at the office

[mousme]

So I'm mostly out at the office, as mentioned in a previous post. I have no doubt there are still many people there who don't know/don't especially care about my sexual orientation. I don't exactly come in with rainbow triangles stitched to my clothing, and I don't have a Gay Pride coffee mug or anything, but I don't hide who I am either. I'm just circumspect about my personal life, whether it be who I date or anything else about what I do in my spare time, thank you very much.

Anyway, the night shift girls and I were having a fun chat about Random Colour's upcoming gig on the 19th of May when the tracker's supervisor came in. After blowing his mind with the fact that I was the drummer in a band, and then further blowing his mind with the fact that I was the drummer in an all-girl band, I proceeded to break him completely.

Tracker's Supervisor: "So you're all girls on stage?"

Me: "Yep."

TS: "Do you have, like, band t-shirts or something?"

Me: "No. We wear corsets."

*pause while the four girls try to explain what a corset is to TS*

TS: "You're kidding! I've gotta come see this now!"

Me: "Yeah, well, we're not exactly a big draw for the single male crowd, being four married women and a lesbian."

TS: *pause* "I'll take the lesbian."

*pause as all the girls turn to look at me*

Me: *grinning from ear to ear* Martin, that's me.

*all the girls collapse in giggles*

I haven't laughed that hard in months. I laughed until I cried and my stomach cramped up. The look on the poor guy's face was priceless. I will admit that I shamelessly set him up, once I realized he hadn't figured out I was gay (I honestly thought he knew), and he walked right into it.

It took a good twenty minutes for everyone to stop laughing enough to be able to talk properly again.

Sometimes I love my coworkers. :D

Comments

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

That is officially hilarious.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome story :D

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe......... I do love how (even the most homophobic) men somehow think lesbians exist for their entertainment!

You should have asked TS what the hell he planned to do with "the lesbian" after he had "taken her"!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that came up during yesterday's talk too: how it's acceptable for women to be lesbians so long as it's for the entertainment of men and so long as they don't "keep it to themselves." Lesbianism is okay in threesomes or for voyeurism, but not in and of itself.

I don't think he's especially homophobic. He's just got a lot of internalized heteronormative thinking, is all. :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I thought it was pretty funny, myself. :D

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Did I mention how hard I laughed? Because I laughed really really hard.

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

Lesbianism is okay in threesomes or for voyeurism, but not in and of itself.

Oh well, as long as the ladies know the rules! ;D

[rehenazelreyhan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they love you, too.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Best coming out story ever :).

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

I'd come see all of you, if the music is good. That's pretty much my criteria. So what do you call a man who has absoultely no interest in other men, in fact has little use for most men at all, and prefers the company of interesting women, but doesn't give a hoot or holler what anyone's orientation is? Is there a name for that?

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

That's a great story! Having had some gay friends who have sad stories to tell about coming out, this was really nice to hear. I'm glad you all got such a great laugh out of it!

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Er... read, not hear. I'm not omnipresent but I do often get my verbs confused on LJ. ;D

[grnladybug.livejournal.com]

That is a great story! Man, I would have loved to have been there for that! :)

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's magical!

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall. :D

[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA!

That is fantastic. Way to go!

Did he not know that you were not married?

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

That's too funny.

Esprit d' escallier

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Should have told him: "Well, you're not really my type."

Ooh, ooh! I know!

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Who is Richard Simmons, Alex!

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

You know we'd love to have you. We think the music is okay, or we wouldn't play it; we're all kind of Type A when it comes to that...

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

"internalized heteronormative thinking"

Awesome phrase. :)

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it is better than OK! I'd love to hear you ladies sometime. I really do go by quality of music over band members' appearance, but I've seen pictures. I know your band would be a win on both counts.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Thank you. I used the word "heteronormative" at work yesterday and got blank looks. :D

Re: Did he not know that you were not married?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

He did ask me once if I was married/had a boyfriend, and I said no. I think he just wasn't thinking very hard and thus didn't put two and two together. He'd also had several vodka/cranberries.