Straight friends gone gay

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WATCHED GUYS IN THE ARMY

“I never really did something with another guy but I did use to watch two dudes I served with [in the military] mess around in the woods.

They always thought they were being private, but I would see them doing things a lot. Muscle cars have always been my thing, and this was my dream car.

To pass time, we made small talk and gossiped about people in the building.

One weekend around 2 or 3 in the morning, we were super bored and started talking about our hookup experiences. I guess it’s all part of growing older.”

-Bruce 33/Decidedly straight

17. I’m married now with kids and don’t consider myself gay.”

-Nick 33 Says he’s hetero

14.

He was a little older than me but not by much (21?). Not sure how to explain the dynamics. But once I got it out of my system, I’ve really never had any desire to do it again. A neighbor and I used to get together and smoke. We probably hooked up half a dozen times.

The whole thing ended when I joined the Army and got deployed.

I think labels do more harm than good.”

-Ken/34 Says he’s straight

6. Maybe it was his cologne?

Just before we left, he stopped by our camp and said he’d be visiting Chicago the next weekend. There was love between us, but I also desired him, which he could not reciprocate. However, straight men in bromosexual friendships have perhaps learned how to harness this ease of friendship between straight women and gay men for their own advantage.

McKie noted that the straight men felt their gay friend was able to make successful introductions to straight women because the women trusted their gay male friends to introduce them to a good person.

But the benefits of bromosexual friendships are not unidirectional.

Yeah, we had been drinking but we weren’t sloshed. He had one of those Joe Weider flat benches, which back then was kind of a big deal.

Over the course of time, we got closer and closer.

But that was years ago. They became the unlikely heroes to help me accept my sexuality.

I appreciate this is not a unique story to me, but until Jack Rooke’s autobiographical comedy Big Boys on Channel 4, I’d never seen a celebration of a gay man and his straight mate like Jack (played by Dylan Llewellyn) and Danny (John Pointing).

Jack is pretty clueless when it comes to everything LGBTQ+ (like I was too) – be it sex, dating or just trying to exist around people who seem much more socially-evolved.

Danny’s there for his best friend when Jack comes out to his mum (in one of the most touching, but funny coming out scenes there is). The dude is married now and so am I. To me, it doesn’t mean you are gay if you experiment.”

-Ronnie/39 Living straight life

10.

By Karen Blair, Ph.D., and Trent University Students Laura Orchard and Bre O'Handley

“We fell into each other’s arms because of our similarities in our career and because of our age and because we like the same sort of things.” This quote could quite likely be the beginning of a wonderful romance story, but instead, it is a quote about friendship delivered toThe Huffington Post by Sir Ian McKellen about his decade’s long friendship with Sir Patrick Stewart.

The two men first came to know each other well on the set of the first X-Men film in 1999, and although the duo played adversaries on the silver screen, offscreen, they were developing a close friendship.

The public figure and I have a lot in common on policy matters, but we are also simpatico at a personal level.