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

[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. :)

[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

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

"internalized heteronormative thinking"

Awesome phrase. :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

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