IntroductionEvoking Andrew Holleran's observation that every new friendship in gay entailed an explanation of How I Got Here, Patrick Merla concludes that has become a central in a gay man's life, and the way in which man comes out reverberates throughout his life (Merla, 1996). Coming that is, act of enunciation of an individual's non-heteronormative sexuality, is key to social narrative of being gay in America. This event is central also to a lesbian's and within lesbian identity. As in Weiss's discussion, coming-out narrative is reflected in lesbian independent films (Weiss, 2004) as well as other cultural contexts. In genre of lesbian feminist fiction, moreover, coming-out narrative has been paradigmatic model of writing since 1970s (Wilson, 1996; Jolly, 2001). To broaden scope still, those who are bisexual, transsexual, and even those with disabilities and cancer, those who are rape victims, straight spouses of homosexual partners, and non-racially marked ethnicities all need to come out (Field, 1993; Buxton, 1994; Carbado, 2000; Arnold, 2000; Lesbian and Breast Cancer Project Team, 2004; Lo, 2006). Indeed, narrative is pervasive and central in conceptualization of non-heteronormative formation and community development and has been adopted in different venues and contexts that are not directly related to sexuality. There is something about coming out experience that is conformatory, that confers an acceptable onto someone, that assures subject group support and inclusion.Yet, is not a definitive or fixed or process as term itself might imply, but rather an individually variable experience(s) whose meaning is contextually and historically dependent. By demonstrating heterogeneous use of term out, I hope to problematicize naturalization of as an inevitable process in formation and a narrative in expression. Contrary to its naturalness, term has been deployed as a trope to frame our conceptualization of nonheteronormative and expression. The exact time when sexuality becomes, if at all, a constitutive part of one's may vary across culture and history. Foucault notes, in Western culture, discursive explosion of eighteenth and nineteenth century caused a centrifugal movement with respect to heterosexual monogamy and scrutiny of sexuality of those who did not like opposite sex and for these people to make difficult confession of what they were (Foucault, 1990, 38-39).Adoption and Transformation of Coming Out Metaphor in Post-Stonewall U.S. HistoryComing of non-heteronormative individuals is a relatively recent phenomenon in Western culture. In fact, research on historical discourse of gay culture indicates that gained its social significance as a strategic practice and a rhetoric after 1969 Stonewall riots and subsequent Gay Liberation movement in 1970s and 1980s (Merla, 1996; Warren, 1997). As a political activist movement, Gay Liberation Front mobilized many individuals to claim a certain collective identity on basis of their sexualities. And rest is history; for over three decades, trope of has enjoyed a status in cultural capitalism. Because of rapid and increased media circulation and gay liberationists' political strategy, this phrase, out of closet, was thus coined for discussions of personal experience and social/cultural/political identity. In pre-Stonewall years, according to Delany, queer subjects deployed term to describe their same-sex sexual experience as coming out into a queer culture and community. Post-Stonewall, however, new meaning of metaphor redefines coming-out subjects from perspective of heterosexist majority, and thus structures our conceptualization not only of sexualities and identities, but also of power relations between normative and non-normative. …