A few facts about my being out...

...Just in case.

I'm pretty out at my workplace, now that I have a steady job. When I was temping, it didn't matter so I never told anyone. Now it would be rather difficult to chat with my workmates and constantly omit the fact that I'm married to a woman, living with her and doing just about everything with her..

Same goes for friends and relatives. It's just much easier to be out.

If, at a hospital or some such place I'm asked who my next of kin is, I tell them it's my wife (and if asked, mention that the person is my wife - not a sister or something like that). Once, a receptionist asked me if Jae was my spouse and I replied that yes, and that in a few months we'll be officially married. Her response? "Oh, how wonderful!" - and that was quite sincerely.

So far the only case (my homephobes and relatives excluded!) of a less than neutral response was from a woman I used to carpool with. Positive responses have been numerous.