Women throw funeral for friend’s ‘straightness’ after coming out as bisexual

She came out — of the coffin.

A group of LGBTQ women in California is going viral for throwing a funeral for their friend’s “straightness” after she revealed she was bisexual. A video of the peculiar “coming out” party is currently blowing up online.

“The funeral was everything I could have hoped for and more,” Nicole Maynard, 27, told Kennedy News of the celebration of sexuality, which occurred on Sept. 1.

The Los Angeles native said she’d always dated men until a series of LGBTQ flings, including making out with a woman at a Fourth of July party this year after meeting her on the dating app Hinge, Kennedy reported. In other words, she kissed a girl and she liked it.

“I have always been the token ‘straight’ friend in the friend group and then after a break up with a man this year, I finally felt ready to explore my bisexuality,” said Maynard, who wanted to celebrate her same-sexual awakening by burying her heterosexual self with the help of her LGBTQ friends.

“The idea of ‘RIP Straight Nicole’ took off, and then I decided there was no better way to celebrate my coming out than a funeral for my straight self,” she said. “I told my friends the idea, designed an invitation and my friends did the rest.”

The resulting bi-rish wake saw Maynard’s 25 friends get gussied up in all-black funeral attire and eulogize her straight self with Justin Bieber lyrics and steamy tales from heterosexual encounters past. A video shows Maynard dancing the night away with her friends, including girlfriend Alexa Thomas, among clusters of black and rainbow balloons, a headstone emblazoned with the words “RIP Straight Nicole” and other memorial décor.

“I went to the Halloween store and got a tombstone and wrote on that as well, we got black balloons and rainbow-colored balloons and mixed them in,” explained Maynard’s bestie Amanda Brown, who organized the soiree. “The dress code was all black. We got veils and the cups and shot glasses were black.”

“We also had to share memories of the ‘deceased’ so I shared stories about her in college making out with frat boys,” she added. “Then we described how the person passed so we had photos of her making out with her first girl and her with her girlfriend.”

And while a straightness funeral might sound gimmicky, Brown found it important as many LGBTQ members have “traumatic coming out stories.”

Needless to say, Maynard was overjoyed at getting officially drafted onto both teams.

“My friends were so excited to celebrate me — everyone committed to wearing all black, and I got so much love throughout the night,” she said. “My girlfriend was also there, and it was her first time meeting most of my friends, which was also very exciting.”

The Californian believes she’s the “luckiest person in the world to have such supportive friends in my life.”

“Coming out to them felt like a really exciting and good thing rather than a scary thing,” she said. “They’ve joked about hoping I was gay for many years and my other straight friends have always been very open allies.”

Fortunately, her LGBTQ pals weren’t the only ones who were thrilled at Maynard unfurling the rainbow flag. “I was most nervous about telling my family, but they have been totally supportive and loving,” said the bisexual gal, who also received a flurry of support on social media.

“The comments have been so sweet; me and Nicole have been sharing them back and forth,” explained Brown. “People have been congratulating Nicole, saying they’re so proud of her, welcoming her, saying everyone needs friends like this and they wish they could have done this but their coming out was traumatic.”

She summed up the good-bi party like this: “We gave her the experience we would have wanted. It was so much fun and we had the best time.”