Making Friends Understand Your Sexuality

Posted by bakla on May 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

It has been a while since I had to go through the motions of explaining my sexuality to anyone and last Sunday was another opportunity for me to do so – to straight friends. My college friends and I had a mini-reunion of sorts. We have been friends for nine years and in the first six of those years, they never knew I was gay. I came out to them some three years ago, but I haven’t really told them how it’s like to live as a gay man in this world.

It’s kind of awkward to talk about your sexuality in the midst of straight male and female friends. First, you’ll have to deal with the fact that they have a different view of homosexuality (some of them homophobic to some extent). And second, you’ll have to deal with people in total shock (no matter how they pretend they’re not) that the straight chickboy they once knew turned out to be gay.

So how does one deal with straight friends?Â How do you make them understand?

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