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Is it unusual for some gay and bisexual guys to have mostly guy friends

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by anonmember, Apr 14, 2018.

  1. anonmember

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    Sorry I forgot to put the question mark in the title, but anyways, it's a stereotype that gay guys have mostly girl friends because their attraction to guys gets in the way too much. But I'm a bisexual guy and all of my best friends are guys. Sometimes I get nervous due to crushes but I learn to cope with it. I hang out with guys more than girls. Is this unusual?
     
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    I wouldn't say it's unusual at all. I don't know a lot of bi guys but most of the gay guys I know have mainly male friends.
     
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    Guys are still guys - gay or not men seem to have better friendships with other men compared to women.

    I'd say probably 70% of my friends are guys.
     
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    I’ve always been in the closet, but pretty much all of my friends have been guys. Aside from occasionally getting a crush on one of them, everything was normal
     
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    I'm not sure that the "gay guy with mostly female friends" stereotype is because of attraction to men getting in the way. It's not like we want to have sex with every guy we're friends with.
     
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    I tend to interact with and have more female friends. If I needed to ask for directions or something I'd feel better asking a girl than a guy.

    Even I have more female friends I feel like I spend more time with guys. But I'm a huge homebody and don't really interact with people besides my dad, bro and bf lmao
     
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    Some gay guys (like me) tend to have mostly male friends. Others tend to have mostly female friends. Still others have a pretty even mix. It doesn't mean anything.
     
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    I have mostly male friends, many of them straight. That's in part because I didn't come out until my mid 20s and have fairly typical male interests
     
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    It says more about your personality than you sexual orientation.
     
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    I have mostly girl friends, not because male attraction gets in the way, but because the girls in my class just make way better friends than the guys.

    I am the "only" gay person in my class, and I dont know anybody else that is gay in my school. Can't be friends with other gay people. Nerds? Only three, one of them a grade below me, 2 two grades above me. I don't want to start new friendships with guys before I come out to everyone. I don't have any friends with many interests in common.

    My old friend group of guys before I came out to a group of girls did some bad shit a while after I stopped being their friends. One of them (he came out as bi after this) made a fake Instagram account (with the same profile picture as his real one) and asked guys for nudes, and one other asked 3 of my girl-friends for nudes. After my friends told the principal, he posted pictures of nudes he found online and said they were one of my girl-friends. You can see why I don't even want to speak to them.
     
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    So he was trying to get gay guys to send nude pictures? (People would know he is a guy from his profile pic) I don't even know what to say to that. Im not sure if it was some misguided attempt to reach out or smth else.
     
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    His profile pic did not have him in it, and his fake profile was named a girls name. He asked straight guys for nudes.
     
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    I think the same thing about myself but it's the opposite . I'm gay and also tomboy and usually tomboys hang out with guys and have same interests but all my friends are girls...I never had a friend who was a guy..
    I get along with girls much better so nothing is unusual its about personality!!
    Also I never had a crush on a girl who is my friend because all of them are so straight it's a turn off haha
    I can't even think about it
     
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    No.

    I'm AMAB, and I could identify as bisexual. Almost all my friends are guys and I'm out to all of them.

    A few years ago, a majority of my friends were girls.

    So that is not unusual at all.
     
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    I wouldn't say its unusual I'm the same way. All of my close friends are guys and I am not attracted to them in anyway shape or form. I do think that it makes it harder to come out to them though.
     
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    Hmmm. I know several gay guys and for them it seems like they are mostly split fairly evenly with male and female friends. Is it unusual you have more guy friends? Maybe? But it doesn't matter. I will say though that even though most of the gay guys I know personally have male friends, when it comes to splitting up to do activities as a group, generally they go with the women on our outings, shopping, etc. rather than playing sports or other things with the straight guys. So most gay men I know at least have more in common with their female friends even if they don't have that many.