How to Tell if Your Guy Friend Is Gay: 15 Steps (wh Pictur)

Contents:

• IS FLIRTG BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN OKAY?
• ASK AMY: GAY MAN SET STRAIGHT ABOUT IEND-FLIRTG
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
• HOW TO KNOW IF A GAY FRIEND LIK YOU (FOR MEN)
• AS A STRAIGHT MAN, HOW N I POLELY STOP MY GAY IEND FLIRTG WH ME?

IS FLIRTG BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN OKAY?

The differenc between gay and straight men are much harr to discern the days, cludg the ways that affectn is shown. It simply don’t matter so much who is gay and who isn’t ( most quarters), and hangg out wh gay men when you are straight is no big al.

At a recent gay weddg of two lennials, I was stumped by the gut list. Asi om the grooms and me, I didn’t know, nor uld I tell after many enunters, who was gay and who was straight. I later learned that this waer is not gay.

ASK AMY: GAY MAN SET STRAIGHT ABOUT IEND-FLIRTG

He uld flirt wh gay men and not be out of his fort zone, but he is attracted to women.

So, I asked a straight male acquatance his early 20s about flirtg wh gay men.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

” It mak sense, a shrewd nice-lookg younger man his charm and don’t happen to re if the teractn is wh a gay man. Then I asked him whether a gay man flirtg wh him would be okay. Several gay male iends and I somehow started talkg about how gay and straight men teract so differently than they once did (not so long ago).

He wasn’t worried about appearg to be gay, and neher was my 20-year-old iend. As gay men, we should take some tips om the men who are simply fortable their own sk:. The lson is that everyone n loosen up, pecially gay men who, for so long, have had to be reful about lettg others really know them.

A rear wr: I'm a twentysomethg gay male wh a straight male acquatance who adms to flirtg wh me. Your distanceSexual attractn is volatile any iendship, but straight men particular feel prsure to monstrate that they are not homophobic.

HOW TO KNOW IF A GAY FRIEND LIK YOU (FOR MEN)

So they might play wh an entirely hypothetil gay inty by mentg on attractive guys, but to gay men, n e across as "mixed signals.

– Gilbert Osmond, MontrealThk of the kidsWhether your iend is nfed about his sexualy, aaid to adm he's gay or simply takg his LGBT support a b too far … do you really want to get volved? And if he were openly gay and had kids wh a male partner stead, would you ask yourself the same qutns about actg on your attractn? He's not g the exce, "I had to get married bee I belong to a ragg homophobic muny.

My hband would probably prefer traipsg around the gay village, checkg out cute men, to stg at home watchg another md numbg soccer you have to protect yourself. It don't matter if your iend is gay or straight – there are other people volved: a partner and kids. When you are growg up a future gay, you learn very quickly that your relatnships wh straight men are never gog to be anythg other than plex.

AS A STRAIGHT MAN, HOW N I POLELY STOP MY GAY IEND FLIRTG WH ME?

I have straight male iends and gay male iends and obvly loads of ladi and everybody is gettg married – ’s jt like Peter’s Friends or This Life, but everybody’s got a crick their neck om g their smartphon day , day out and we’re all tweetg our breakfasts stead of llg each other. But as more boys move away om a fear of gay men toward a d cursy, ’s all too easy to misterpret and get rried away.

He wasn’t gay, or remotely terted tryg out, but wanted to be found attractive. He uldn’t unrstand why, as a gay man, I wasn’t salivatg over what was before me like a rtoon dog droolg at the ssag a butcher’s wdow.

Thanks to advanc gay sex scen on TV, nobody really asks “Who plays the man and who is the woman? But sometim when you go to a rtrant as a gay man, ually when there’s more than one of you, somethg odd seems to happen to some straight waers. I am gay.