^Oh I totally agree.
I do think, though, that hopefully the way we'll
get to a point in time where gay people don't have to "announce it officially" is by more and more up-and-coming young stars doing precisely what Groff did. He made it known without making it any kind of "big deal", basically just saying "yup, I'm gay and good with it and that's that!". I think that the more and more people start doing that- particularly when they're young and at the beginning of their careers like Groff is- the more it will just start being an understood thing, and the need to have any "official confirmation" at all will go away.
But in order for that to happen I think there first needs to be those people who step up and start
showing other young gay people that you can live your life open and happily and it's not something you need to keep hidden. And to do that, at
this point, it helps to say it outright. Outright, but not making a big
deal out of it- which is exactly what Groff did :)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.