You're best friend confides in you, and tells you they are gay. Do you remain close as always, or would your friendship change?

If a bosom friend of mine confides that he is gay our friendship not change, hence it will deepen even more. I respect the sexual preferences of my friends and I don't think that will be a cause of conflict or gap within us. I don't want to lose a good friend just because I am prejudiced about his choices of who he wants to be in life.

I would be very thankful and grateful to him because it takes a lot of courage to be open about his sexuality. And by divulging his true sexuality he only proved to me that he cares about our friendship and that he trusts me not to be judgmental of him. And if I were in his shoes I would the same and I will be very happy that my friend understands and accept me not matter what.

It would make no difference in our relationship if my frien came out to me. Our friendship would still be as strong as ever. Our friendship is built on our trust and compassion for one anothe for who we are, not for our sexual prefferences.It is built on the experences we have had over the years together.

Nothing would ever change that. I would never be so petty as to have her love life come between something so important as our friendship.

Well it all depends on your oppinion on your point of view. For instance would you appreciate the fact he is gay? Would you strongly disagree on the change from straight to gay?

Are you affended by it or strongly against it? These are all questions you have to ask your self because its your perspective that cahnges the relatoinship.

In terms of looking at my friend in a different light, no I don’t think our friendship would change significantly. I have had a good friend in the past who later confessed to being gay and we still had as much fun hanging out as before. At this point in my life, my closest friend is a married woman whose husband is just as close a friend to both my husband and I.

If she confessed to me that she was interested in women, my feelings and respect for her would not change, however, I think the friendship with her family would change somewhat since she would likely not be able to remain with her husband if she decided to pursue her interest in women. If the two ended up separating, my family and I would likely be forced to either choose sides (hanging out with her or her husband) or accommodate both friends equally, which would be difficult in and of itself. Regardless of what decisions she would make, our relationship overall would be altered, since we would not be able to enjoy the same type of friendship and fun times as we do now (in the company of both our friends there at the same time).

It absolutely would not affect our friendship. In a perfect world, discrimination based upon sexual orientation wouldn't even exist; it'd be unheard of. This isn't a perfect world, but it's everyone's duty to do as much as they can do move it along to where it's close enough.(Yes, I'm an idealist.) Going by that, discriminating against my friend based on such a confession -- which undoubtedly took a lot of courage to make -- would just be plain wrong.

It's times like these where he or she needs support, not rejection. It'd be bad enough from a stranger or an acquaintance, but friends have duties to be, well, friendly.

I've had a friend of mine confessed that he's gay to me. The fact that he could confide this to me (being homosexual is still a great great taboo in my country) meant that he trust me to accept him for what he was. I never keep it secret of my personal and professional opinion (as an educated counselor) about homosexuality.

And he was right, of course. Being gay is never a sin or a taboo. It is just a sexual preference, the same like the fact that I like boys.

What was a little weird was that before he confessed, I used to have a crush on him, because he was kind of cute. But knowing that he was gay made him my best friend, and we often talked about cute guys together. We also chatted about our students (he was a fellow teacher) who we thought were in denial of their sexuality or who had the potential to be bi, that sort of thing.

I think the saying that a gay is a woman's best friend might be true. I felt sad when he moved to work to other place. Last time I heard, he joined a church and supposed to "repent" from his homosexuality.

I know that he wouldn't tell me because he knew I'm agnostic. Although we're close, we aren't THAT close, so I don't want to interfere if that’s what he really wants.

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