Asking a friend to go out with you is not hurtful. You are allowed to come out as bisexual if you’re only attracted to one of your friends named Greg and haven’t first run a hypothetical attraction test on all the other men in the world. You are allowed to come out as bisexual in your late 20s. He worried that it was his “fault” and that I wouldn’t want to be friends anymore. But he concluded I was angry with him, texted me an upset-sounding apology. I also texted him the same information, just in case. I had to leave early the next morning for a work emergency, so I left him a note (along with a glass of water and some aspirin) explaining why I had to leave. I initiated it, and he asked several times if I was OK with what we were doing. I was at his place recently, comforting him over a breakup we got drunk and slept together. Possibly bisexual: I have always identified as a straight guy, but I am recently panicked and confused by feelings for my best friend (a gay man), “Greg.” We’ve known each other since college and have always been close.
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Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat.ĭaniel Mallory Ortberg: Hi, everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the break-now it’s back to your regularly scheduled Dear Prudence. I am reassured he will not misinterpret any contact between our lower bodies, and he understands my need for this reassurance.Help! My White Co-Worker Is Accusing Me of Cultural Appropriation Because of My Hair.ĭaniel Mallory Ortberg is online weekly to chat live with readers. However, my partial embrace left my friend feeling as if I were withholding emotionally. I realized I was doing everything I could to keep my genital area from touching his body.
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A straight friend of mine once complained that I don’t give him full body hugs, but instead grab his shoulders keeping my pelvis far from his, thus creating a posture that looks like the letter A. As it turns out, the gay friend worried that if he hugged too closely his friend would think he was coming on to him. Fortunately, Garfield is all about talking such things out-good medicine for those among us who are the strong, silent, swallow-your-feelings-until-you-die-of-a-heart-attack type of guys. In his book, Garfield describes the stiff hugs he would receive from a gay friend. This legacy of violence, both physical and psychological, inflicted by straight men toward those of us who are gay naturally fuels our caution and distrust at the thought of befriending them. As a result of this behavior-identity link, sexual congress between gay and straight men decreased considerably, or at least went underground. in the mid 20th century this behavior became associated with gay identity, new at the time and seen as criminal and then sick. Interestingly, in the U.S., before there was such a thing as a gay identity, some straight men would, with little shame, engage in sexual contact with other men (usually allowing themselves to be fellated) when female partners were otherwise unavailable (see George Chauncey’s seminal book, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940) and there is good reason to believe this still occurs in other countries and cultures.
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Perhaps even scarier is that their emotional connections will somehow morph into sexual attraction. Straight men fret that if they get too close, others will see them as gay which in their minds means feminine (horrors!), weak, and perverted. According to Garfield, among the many obstacles to male-male platonic intimacy, fear of homosexuality looms large.