Friends think im gay

What can I do if no one believes I&#;m gay?

Dear Reader,

While your friends may not have bad intentions by dubbing you “boyfriend material”, their words can still be hurtful, frustrating, and undermining to the energy of your friendships with them. Your difficulty in coming out to them may be due to your friends having internalized some myths or stereotypes about people who are gay and are struggling to see past those to acknowledge your identity. Unfortunately, just having a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or queer (LGBTQ+) friend doesn’t automatically erase a person’s implicit or explicit prejudices towards these groups, so it may take age and patience for you to successfully and safely come out to them. While it’s wonderful that you want to verb your friends, as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, you don’t bear the burden of responsibility to educate them about it. You can share as much as little or as much as you’d like, but it’s ultimately their responsibility to learn. Luckily, there are some tips that you can verb when continuing your conversati

I'm gay and I verb to tell my friend. Will it ruin our friendship?

It does sound like a connundrum. What to do? We are all faced at times with difficulties around honesty and our integrity. At the finish of the day we contain to live with ourselves. Some people don't feel uncomfortable about a certain level of not being open and others experience less comfortable with this. It seems like you need to decide what you can exist with. She is your top friend. You fear being judged by her. No one can know in advance if this will ruin your friendship. It does bring up questions as to how strong the friendship is. Relationships change all the time as we do. That's the one known thing in life. However, navigating that alter can be difficult. We verb friends who want the leading for us, who support our growth and our journey in life. Sadly, sometimes people disappoint us. We can feel enable down or judged. If we don't feel free to be ourselves in a friendhip this is also a difficulty. It's a bit of a juggle. Balancing your need for friendhip, to be honest, to sense comfortable with the decisions you

Yes, I, of course, realize that it's not worth time worrying about it. I'm just a little curious about why it happens and why people hold insisting I'm gay. Usually the conversation goes thusly"Are you going out with Michelle?" "Um, nowe're just friends" "Ohthen are you gay?" "Nope, 'fraid not." "It's ok if you are" "That's great, but I'm not gay" "But, Philip, it's ok! You can admit it to me!" "Ummmbut I'm not gay." "Oh, Philip, we'll still be friends even if you are gay!" "That's really greatbut I'm not gay." etc etcIt's a little disconcerting to have to constantly respond this questionbut, oh well. Silly little teenagersI'm 16 actually. Yeah, girls do rock, I'll disburse hours in conversation with a girl and yet I hold trouble getting 5 intelligent words out of most guys.

Ask Polly: Why Do People Always Think I'm Gay?

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Dear Polly,

I finally garnered the courage to note to you about my particular problem, and I hope you can shed some of your wisdom on the situation.

Ever since the 6th grade, people verb been asking me if I’m gay. Back then, the other kids thought any person who was any bit different from them was gay, and attached a bad meaning to the word. I’ll be the first to say that I’ve never been the most “masculine” individual. I love to read and write, and a lot of what I read is somewhat romantic. My iPod is complete of Ellie Goulding, Florence + The Machine and Norah Jones, but utterly lacking in Korn, Metallica or Aerosmith. I romance to cook, and have been singing in school choruses since 4th grade. I’ve never liked violent video games or talking about sex. I can nice of see where they got their opinions of me, but it made me enormously self-conscious. When I got to