One boring Sunday.

[neokittie]

Some men are so homophobic.....many extremes. Someone at work asked if I had a girlfriend. I cocked an eyebrow and said "girlfriend?" "I hadn't had one of those since I was in the closet" I assumed everyone knew I was gay. I guess I was busy talking to people about their love lives that mine never came up. When I told them about Jason my last

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[delita]

lol, you should like wink at them and stuff now.

[anonymous]

Wow- I hate to just jump right in on this one with advice, but I'm hoping that it will be helpful. I'm thinking that since you've worked with these people for awhile, you've developed somewhat of a raport with them. Now while fear of your sexuality may quickly eat away at that relationship, take advantage of this time now while they themselves are coming to terms with "he's the guy we knew and liked" and "he's gay so we don't like him"; that is- you have a little bit of time while they wage a battle on their inside to appeal to the fact that on some level they still like you. What I would do is call it for what it is... tell them that you noticed that they looked uncomfortable after they found out, and you were wondering if they had any questions for you, since you know it's a hard idea to get used to. Tell them it was hard for you to get used to too. That will put you in the same boat as them empathetically, as well as open the floor to the question, "you didn't always know?" or "you didn't choose this?" If they don't talk, talk for