Your mission, if you choose to accept it

As flexible and malleable and dynamic as the English language is, I think I have found a circumstance which is lacking a word.

It seems lately that individuals who feel they must deny, vehemently or otherwise, that they are gay are getting bigger headlines than those people who announce that they actually are. One voice in my head is saying that the small headlines for those coming out are a sign of progress, albeit a tiny one (why does it need to be in print at all?) The voice then goes on to say that the people denying their queerness are hungering for some attention and did not put enough time into thinking about creative ways to get some press (um, repeat of last parenthetical) and that this is decidedly not progress.

So if the act of saying one is homosexual is called outing or coming out, what is the act of denying that one is homosexual called? Not tonight honey, I'm staying in. (!?!)

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