Some of the comments here are responding to this post by questioning the motives of why someone might "come out" with their sexual orientation, claiming iH8sn0w is trying to steal attention to himself by a surprise. These comments try to come from a position of moral objectivity, stating that we don't see developers making posts coming out as straight, nor should we consider this to be a big deal as this is 2015 and apparently homosexuality is accepted in mainstream culture.

Yet, this is not actually true: it is tolerated, not accepted, and only even then in restricted regions and contexts. People are cruel, even dangerous, to that which they find different than what they are used to, in particular when these differences are related to aspects of themselves they already find difficult to think about: sex itself is a topic that many people consider uncomfortable to talk about. The reality is that even in some of the most reasonable contexts, homosexuality sets you apart.

Those who are different are still, even in 2015, thereby in a position where they have to decide how much of themselves to make clear, and how much to keep obscure: how much of themselves they will make vulnerable to ridicule, and how much they will only share with those they most trust (if anyone at all). They live their lives acting a part that isn't actually "them", which changes not just how others perceive them, but how they perceive themselves: they make their own true self an "other".

Maybe you have no issue with homosexuality; maybe you have a good friend that is openly homosexual, or a family member: maybe even yourself. Maybe you live in an area where people are generally accepting, where homosexuality is not terribly uncommon, and where the concept of "coming out as gay" makes as much sense as "coming out as a person who likes the color green". Please understand that this is not the common experience: this is not how most of the world currently works :(.

Sometimes, hiding is just avoiding being explicit. If you live life, and you just don't tell other people you are homosexual, they are going to assume you are not: even someone who is entirely accepting is likely to assume, by default, that people are not homosexual, as that assumption is correct enough most of the time. This puts a weird societal requirement on anyone who are different but want to "be themselves": that they have to say it, explicitly, as otherwise people will assume otherwise.

When given less information, people make even more assumptions. As the saying goes, on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog; however, this is because, in practice, most people are going to assume you are a heteronormal white male between the ages of 17 and 35 that lives in a western country, one who comes from a middle class family and received a high school education. If you are not any of these things, and you want people to know this about yourself, you end up having to "come out" :(.

Which brings us back to why someone might want other people to know this about themselves: if it supposedly isn't important, then why tell people? How many people here say on their profiles that they use a jailbroken iPhone? How many developers talk about what programming languages they use, or what television shows they watch? How many people say, with pride, what country they are from? These are not uncommon things, they are not strange, and they are essentially never questioned.

I thereby have to ask that people do not question why iH8sn0w has posted this: if he has decided that it is time to stop having to pretend to others that he is the same as everyone else, I think he probably had very little choice but to post this message. He didn't post it to hurt anyone. His posting this doesn't take away from anything else being done by anyone else. He isn't boasting, nor is he trying to draw attention: he is just opening up about a part of himself, and it was probably a hard thing to do :(.