I "came out" to an associate at a business event - and I laughed

Spending a few days at a business conference, where I had to give a speech to about 300 people in front of me, I had assumed everyone in attendance had already known by know that I was gay. It's been over four years since I opened up to my workmates and business associates about my sexuality. And a figured the word ran rampant amongst my peers.

After my speech, I was having coffee with a business associate that I have know for almost 20 years, but only see intermediately at these type of functions. As we were catching up he asked me what's new and I told him how I recently married - assuming he already knew I was gay.

He offered his congratulations and ask when he can meet my new "wife". I literally broke out laughing. He had a puzzled look on his face. I then agreed that he can meet my "husband" whenever he wants! The look on his face was priceless, as I then spent the next 10 minutes telling him about my last five years.

I am still laughing inside as I am typing this :lol:

 

Speaking of surprises with fellow grads, a few weeks back I got a friend recommendation on my Facebook account (how does Facebook do this??) for an old friend of mine that I went to school with whom I had not seen since graduation. Following the recommendation, I send him a friend request and he immediately confirmed it. To my surprise, his profile picture reflected him and his husband whom had just recently married. To his surprise, my photos reflected my partner and myself (at the time prior to our wedding). I never once thought he was gay back in school!

We are all actually getting together for dinner in the next week with our respective husbands. I am really looking forward to catching up and hearing about his journey; as I am sure he is equally anxious to hear about mine.

 

It will be fun indeed. However, aside from these two recent events, I really have not even thought about "coming out" in quite some time - it just seems so common and matter of fact now. It's more of a surprise when people do not know.