I think--I hope--that I have been planning to go in the right direction in this story, then. Because I had been cringing away from a big dramatic moment of coming out--as a very private person I usually don't like to write those, and now and then I remind myself that there's a kind of emotional satisfaction in a story where characters come out dramatically, and otherwise I tend to write characters kind of de facto stuck in a closet. But this story is--ironic for a story about a fake business--a lot more realistic than most I write, and so yeah, I've been thinking a more gradual start-and-stop coming-out is going to have to happen. Something "dramatic" risks taking on that air of kayfabe again, and that's obviously a complex issue for both of them. Thank you for the tip about having to tell some people more than once because they just don't believe it, I can easily see that being something that would happen in this kind of world (also a good example of straight privilege as it had never occurred to me as a thing that could happen, yipes). Lots to chew on here, and it's led to some interesting (and let's hope fruitful) conversations with my beta. :)