Yes and they answered the question (in the mid 80s - it seems as though it might have been a bigger deal to be out then-real danger of being fired from jobs, beat up by cops etc). For me, I wanted to know if they were straight - were they going to get weird because I am not and if gay - I wanted to be prepared in case I ran into them in the community (which was not, at the time, very large). I don't think it is as often something a straight client thinks about.