Would you... (question for straight guys)

[OhHeyItsTy]

Sorry if this has already been asked...

Ok, so let's say you have a very close friend who is openly gay (or maybe you actually do), and because you're so close and such good friends, people start assuming that you are gay as well. My question is, would you let this get in the way of your friendship? Would you stop being friends with him, or just ignore what people say?

[RenamedUser]

No, not by any means. People who make baseless accusations should be ignored.

[theOperaGhost]

No. If he's really such a close friend, I'm not going to let people break that friendship just because they think I'm gay. I know I'm straight, so it wouldn't bother me too much. I only actually know like three openly gay people and I don't have a problem with them.

[OhHeyItsTy]

A friend of mine did let that get in the way of our friendship, and so he just avoided me for like a year, then told me why he hasn't been talking to me. He said he's gonna start just ignoring what people say if they say anything, but I'm not all that sure I wanna be his friend anymore.

[BuryYourFlame]

Ignore the idiots, if they're gonna assume something like that just cause of your friend choices then their opinions count no more than their pet dog's.

[daveywavey]

screw that!!, that goes against everything i believe in , i would just ignore them

[RuneArchiac]

If your close friends stay that way you don't want to harm a good rare friendship all the kids say your gay just ignore them one of them could be hiding something too and because of that they join in the crowd.

[coodood]

I would probably just ignore the other people.

[Blue63]

Why would you dump your best friend cause others think your gay. I'd correct them, no, we're just friends, I'm straight. I would never turn my back on my friend, I'd be more afraid of him turning his back on me.

[Eddle]

You can do two options here, 1) Ignore them completly and tell the friend that you don't care what they say, you are both really good friends and nothing will change that this would make the friend feel more relaxed when around you (there is nothing worse than making a good friend get beaten down because of who you are) and 2) tell the people about the situation saying simply we are just good friends you wouldn't have to say anything more and if they get silly about that just ignore them and move on.

[hiker1992]

If you're actually friends something like other people's assumptions shouldn't get in the way of your relationship whatsoever, outside opinions shouldn't mean a thing to you if they're hurtful.