I have appreciated reading this thread and all the responses, but I find it very interesting that there are 2 distinct definitions applied to the terms in or out of the closet.
First there is the version I will restate as who or how many people know about your cross dressing?
Second there is the more literal interpretation of do you venture outside your house and in your own city or travel to a neighboring one, aka do you go out in public.
My thinking of the definition is more the second one, but I was very surprised by the number of responders who say they are still in the closet, but yet post stories about excursions or trips or shopping or whatever while en femme. To me that is out of the closet! I am not trying to say they are wrong, just pointing out the 2 separate definitions and how I find that very interesting.
Personally my wife (30 years ago roughly) the wig shop owner and her aid (almost a year ago), a Therapist during a lone therapy session (last summer) and members of this board (I joined about a year ago) are the only people that know about my cross dressing, which I definitely consider myself as in the closet, BUT ALSO I have never left my house once yet and have no plans to for the foreseeable future, so still fully closeted by my definition.
Thanks for lots of interesting posts in this thread.
