Have you ever had a straight friend exhibit an element of homosexual curiosity? I once had a friend who, when evaluating all the evidence, certainly seemed to accurately fit the bill. He persistently brought up sex to "get [me] excited", despite my constant and ashamed protests. He would get drunk and take his shirt off to show me his muscular body. But I saw that I had to play a weird little game; it couldn't be explicitly gay, I suppose. When I confronted him on this he flat out denied it. But the games continued, and the sexual tension between us became so ripe that it heavily contributed to what ultimately ended our friendship. Tragic. He was my friend, my brother by choice, as it were. I loved him, very much, as my friend and brother. Why would he do that? Is so much of a coward that he couldn't come to me with forthright direction and admit his latent physical feelings? I might have otherwise reciprocated, but I was never going to proceed based on a premise of dishonesty and pretense. Thoughts, anyone?
