Do you know someone who is gay? Did your opinion of gays change when you got to know them better?

Answer 1

I know quite a few gays. Mostly they come in waves! Get to know one and pretty soon you'll know a dozen.

Every one gets the same treatment. Every so ofter one gay guy doesn't get the message: "I'm not gay and I don't want to try it". They get the cold shoulder from then on.

Otherwise it's business and friends as usual.

Oh...Except for the political aspects. Sometimes we have heated debates about what constitutes marriage. Mostly we know where we stand and we don't talk about it.

Answer 2

Some of the kindest, most loving and thoughtful people I have ever met have been gay. I never had a bad opinion of "gays" in general. I give every person a chance to be a friend. I do not judge lifestyles unless they are based on hatred and repression. I could not be friends with anyone who was mean or cruel, no matter what their orientation was.
I think it is best to keep your heart and mind open to all people, until they do something which makes you feel that they are not the kind of person you want to be friends with. Their sexual orientation should have no bearing on this, unless they made an advance which made you uncomfortable. That usually wouldn't happen if you made it clear that you were not interested.

Answer 3

I met a gay for the first time when I was in high school at a retreat. I was pretty homophobic toward him, and the rest of the small group (mostly women) called me on it. We ended up getting along pretty well after we started talking, and I actually ended up dating his sister for a while. I don't agree with his lifestyle, but it's not mine to agree with.

I think this is a metaphor for most human relations. You don't understand someone until you meet them, hence the illogic of prejudice.

Answer 4

Yes, I have several friends who are gay. I don't think that my opinion of gays changed, because I don't identify them by their sexuality. I look at them for their personality, and when my friend told me he was gay, and was terrified I would not like him anymore, I told him that didn't matter to me at all. He was still the same loveable sweet man that he always was, in my eyes. People need to look at people for people, and they don't need to be concerned with what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom.

Answer 5

I used to hate gays when I was a kid because I was one, and to be in the closet means you usually hate the way you are,and so sometimes you pretend to be straight for so long that you get upset when you see homosexuals living their own free life and the life you don't think you are entitled too.And so much anger and frustration is bottled up inside that sometimes they get very violent and lash out on other homosexuals because of the feelings they have inside-

Answer 6

Actually I knew him all through high school but never found out he was gay until college. No, my opinion has not changed about him. He's still a cutie :)

Answer 7

I can't say I like ALL gay people. That would be like saying I like ALL heterosexuals...not true. Its just not right to hate somebody BECAUSE they are gay. I know several gay people that I love and a couple I can't stand.

Answer 8

yes I know several people who say they are. My opinion has been enhanced by getting to know them. I found they are more sincere and willing to help than most. Too bad all the "straight" people are not the same. And if you are lucky enough to have one of them as your friend, you can always count on them to be there when you need.

Answer 9

I know lots of gay people, my best friend is gay. I never had any negative feelings about gay people becuse my mother taught me to respect diversity.

Answer 10

True story: I was working at a hospital as a file clerk..prior to this job i had no interaction with anyone who was a homosexual..so i had no predjudices about them. Anyway i had a homosexual co worker...this however didnt bother me, we went to lunch, talked about football, i'd make comments about women, he would agree...it wasnt that bad being around this guy(whatever)..anyway long story short, up to this point in my life(tender age of 25) i had no problems with homosexuals, none whatsoever...so come to find out after we did our lunch thing, he was coming back telling the women we worked with(he and I were the only males) that he was going to "get" me...i found this out through a co worker i ended up dating. She assumed i was gay and after she uh saw that i wasnt, ahem, she told me what this dude was saying. So i felt betrayed by this rat bastard homo, and told him to keep his distance from me. I would like to say that i dont have a problem with homosexuals, and i probably shouldnt think all gays are untrustworthy with regards to befriending them, but i do. That one incident in my life made me very untrusting of homosexuals. True story.