Well, I am one of those “covert” gay guys. I have been gay my entire life but I tried to repress those desires and I did the “straight” thing for the first 30 years of my life. I finally decided that I was not going to live a lie anymore but there was no way in the world I would live as a gay guy, I was just going to be celebate, because I did not want to be gay but I just could not fake liking girls anymore, it is a lot of work. That lasted a few years, I was in serious denial, but then I started checking things out on the internet and meeting people who were just like me. I was surprised that there were other guys out there who play sports and liked watching football and hockey and who are for a lack of a better word “straight acting”. I thought all gay guys were like Just Jack from Will and Grace or like Richard Simons, I did not know there were others like me who were just regular normal guys. It took me a good year to come out to all the people that mattered like my family and friends, I still keep it very low profile at work because I am trying to become a firefighter and I do not want my sexual proclivity to effect my job. I know some of the flag waivers are going to say I am doing a disservice to the rest of the gay community, but not all gay people have to be activists and flag waivers. I like being normal and having chicks hit on me, they hit on me more now than when I was trying to be straight, my straight friends all get pissed because I get more girls numbers than they do. The bad part about being a gay guy that hangs with all straight people is I have to be the guy who takes one for the team, if there is a fat girl in a group of girls my buddies want to talk to, I am the one who has to talk to the fat girl and of course she thinks I am cute and wants to date me, but then I inform her that I probably would rather date her buff brother.