I don't know if this applies to this type of situation or not, but here it goes. My co-worker and I were talking today about work and our jobs and the fact that even though the job we do is rather mundane and does not challenge either of us intellectually, we both enjoy coming to work. We have fun while at work, and neither one of us dreads coming to work. He admitted that he was quite surprised to find out that I was gay. He said that he also admired me for living an honest life and for standing up for myself when people say things that really should not be said in the workplace regarding gays. He said that he never really had such close contact with anyone who was gay, to the best of his knowledge, but he liked the fact that I did not wear my sexuality on my sleeve but I did not shy away from it either, and can laugh at myself just as easily as I can laugh at others. He said that he realized, by getting to know me, that I am no different from anyone else. He then finished by saying that he has noticed that we both work the same and actually find ourselves saying the exact same things to our supervisors and managers without talking between ourselves first. He said that he has learned that I am either straighter than I think that I am, or he is not as staight as he thought he was.


