| What will everyone else think? |
| Am I afraid of what others will think when they hear this ironic story? Yes, certainly, affirmative. I'm petrified. A) Becuase society looks down on gays in the first place. Then he reveals it to me while we were considered to be going out and I still consider him to be a best friend is seen as outrageous by most people. B) There are not only stereotypes about gays, but also about their friends. The first question always asked is if the friends are also gay: how can they understand someone who's gay without being gay themselves? Fear is relative. The love one feels for the friend is unsurmountable, and the fear of facing other people about it can thus be overcome. It merely teaches me courage and a greater level of self-awareness. As for stereotypes...what does a false belief have to do with the true me? The easiest answer to the original question, though, is this: the reason we are still best friends is beacause so much has happened betwixt us that it is unexplicable. We are tied together by too much for one issue to rip us apart. |