so, ive been outed from a closet i wasn't IN in the first place

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so im home for thanksgiving and an old freind calls me and tells me "I heard you were seeing a guy"

Now, I'm a straight guy, but i don't date much (truth be told i still carry a torch around for a girl i saw in high school). Many of my freinds from high school have never seen me date anyone since her, and i dont see any of them in college, so I think this rumor is beginning to stick.

of course, there is no way i can deny this without it sounding like denial (especially in a town as small as mine). has anyone ever dealt with anything like this? because I feel like im about to lose all my freinds.

― logged out of a closet i wasn't in in the first place, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

because I feel like im about to lose all my freinds.

Oh well.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

not friends worth keeping, etc.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

You'll be better off without them

People mistake me for A GAY all the time, but whatever

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Propose to Katie Holmes.

― andy --, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

move out of that small town and tell them to fuck off. or maybe just the latter.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you can bring along the creepy receptionist? Or Elmo, if you want to get rid of your lame friends?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Excuse me, please, but I think I can explain what's going on in here.
My name is Chuck and I been knowing Rufus about a year,
At midnight creeping around there not staying around to standing living in hell, sleepin in and out of hotels..."
I said, "Brother, spare the details!"
Then Rufus said, "Chuck, please! Don't say nothing else!"
Then she screams, "Rufus you son of a bitch,"
He says, "Cathy, go to hell!"
I said, "I thought you said your name was Mary, that what you said at the party.
Man this is gettin scary Imma shoot somebody!"
Then Rufus start yelling and screaming saying, "Cathy, this is all your fault!"
She throws a pillow at him and says, "You were creeping too, the only difference is you didn't get caught!"
Chuck screamed out, "We're in love!"
Cathy says, "Love my ass!"
Rufus said they're getting married then I shoot one in the air!

I said, "Not annother one of you sons of bitches say a word!
Cuz all this shit I'm goin thru is unheard!"
I grabbed my cellular
I said, "This is so wrong,"
I call up my home,
And a man picks up the phone phone phone phone.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

People mistake me for A STRAIGHT all the time, and yeah, fuck em. (and it's not nec to 'keep' friends from high school)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Get in line, sister. A large percentage of my graduating class thinks I'm a lez because I didn't date any of THEM in high school and because in college I cut all my hair off. I know this for a fact, because my college friend C ran into a bunch of the yokels at a party across the state and the first thing they asked when they found out she knew me was whether I'd come out yet. I mean, short hair? Obviously a dyke.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

No offence, but Thanksgiving does seem to cause a lot of strife.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Gear et al otm.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.20six.fr/pub/daysofbeingwild/jean_seberg.jpg

"I mean, short hair? Obviously a dyke..."

― andy --, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.leninimports.com/jean_seberg_gallery_6.jpg

THERE we go.

― andy --, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Laugh about it. Tell them no, you aren't gay. Hit on their girlfriends until everyone involved starts saying "I liked you better when I thought you were gay." Tell them, "Actually I AM gay!" and slap the face of the nearest male with your penis. Smile all the way to jail/the hospital (delete where appropriate).

― Dan (Award-Winning Screenplay) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

thanks everyone, perhaps i shouldn't worry about lame freinds.

this whole rumor started because i had a gay roomate (in a house of 6 people), and i guess i made the mistake of telling one of my home freinds that one of these roomate's freinds hit on me.

but still, it sucks. some of these people here at home ive known for my entire life...

― logged out of a closet i wasn't in in the first place, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure why, but at a glance I thought Dan's post was from Dr. Morbius, which of course made it hilarious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

"I am gay, I'm just not gay for you."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

"I'm not gay, but I am gay for you."

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry about lame friends, but don't think ILX calling your friends lame means anything at all. Are any of them good friends?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Actually, if you follow A Nairn's argument to its logical conclusion, you shouldn't have bothered posting this thread in the first place as you shouldn't think anything written here has any meaning.

I guess now would be the appropriate time to start posting kittens.

― Dan (KITTY BLITZKRIEG) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Kittens crapping their pants.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

should i just give up on these people?

"Smile all the way to jail/the hospital (delete where appropriate). "
This isn't too far from the truth. If I do go out with these people tonight (if they even call me back, which probably won't happen at this point), im kinda scared that someone (outside my freinds, like an old high school jock acquaintance at a bar) will bring this up and harass me. I'm not the type to fight, and it feels utterly RIDICULOUS that I would have to do so.

"youre in high school again/ youre in high school again/ youre in high school AGAIN"

― logged out of a closet i wasn't in in the first place, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

You could try singing your ILX handle at them to the tune of a U2 song.

― Dan (You've Got To Get Yourself Together) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

(On a more serious note, all you can do is live your life and give people who hassle you about this the big brush-off; you don't HAVE to fight anyone and you can prosecute people who hit you for no good reason.)

― Dan (Not As Big An Issue As You Think It Is, Seeing as You Aren't Gay) Perry (Da, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

i mean, i thought they were good freinds. I don't see them as much as I used to (due to college), but these are people i would like to continue being freinds with, regardless how much i feel like burning every single redneck bridge here.

― logged out of a closet i wasn't in in the first place, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

just admit how GEY you are

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

If everything goes down all wrong at least you have a funny story. (post results)

xLeon, maybe this page has what you're looking for:
http://www.kittenpants.org

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Remember, gay men = great taste (except for music, obv.)

― andy --, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

(Not As Big An Issue As You Think It Is, Seeing as You Aren't Gay)

Yeah, this seems key. I'm not sure why you're even logged out, seeing as you don't have anything to hide.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

(and women, another obv.)

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

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