Thank you for saying this. I would love to see a follow up piece on Lifehacker on this topic.

Clearly we need a straight-person's guide to a gay person's life and coming out. To explain things like "why people feel the need to come out at all, I don't care!", etc... if the comments here are any indication. There's a lot of cluelessness (naivete, not necessarily malignant) here, which sorta surprises me.

I saw mention of "how people reacted", but how are you supposed to react? Nobody ever came out to me, but if they did, I wouldn't know what to say, other than OK.