Nearly 1 in 5 LGBTQ Adults have never come out, survey finds.

I've never come out as non binary, I just let people think I'm a gay man who loves female pop icons and mascara.

It'd be even higher if you asked how many had never come out to work colleagues or extended family, etc.

I think work colleagues and extended family are on a need-to-know basis R2. Even immediate family can be unsupportive, but let's start there first.

Why I never!

20% Good grief!

Coming out isn't a 1 time thing. There's friends, immediate family, extended family, close co-workers, the entire office, different job co-workers, etc.

Seems like a flawed study from people who don't understand the gay community or experience at all.

Do they get Uber eats all the time???? Imagine never seeing the sunlight ….

^ R6, according to the study these are people who've never come out to ANYONE not people who are out to some people but not others

It’s not flawed if they define “not coming out” as never telling anyone.

How very very dare you!

It'd be more interesting if they started where these people live or their background. I suspect you'll start to see patterns there.

What are you insinuating?

[quote]according to the study these are people who've never come out to ANYONE not people who are out to some people but not others

That's just astonishing, if true. How sad for them that they have no one they trust enough to share such a vital part of themselves. Their lives must be brutal.

This part of the article really stood out to me: "That rate is higher for bisexual adults, with 23% reporting that they aren’t out to anyone, compared to 5% of gay and lesbian adults."

Religion.

They won’t come out as non-binary.

Fuck that noise, I couldnt deal with not being out. I started telling friends at 18, family a year or two later, I cant be fucked hiding it and havent for decades.

I'm with R13. Living like that must be horrendous, like living under the Taliban

[quote]This part of the article really stood out to me: "That rate is higher for bisexual adults, with 23% reporting that they aren’t out to anyone, compared to 5% of gay and lesbian adults."

Sounds right to me. I know a number of celebrities have come out as bisexual, but in the reality-based world, most of the people who identify as such are nearly always head cases. The "bisexual" married-to-a-woman dudes are gay and in denial, which I can comprehend only because *I* initially came out as bi, for all of a month.

It’s all about trannies. No one cares about us fags anymore except Matt Damon.

R19, not true. Which is why many gay and bi people are still closeted