Over the weekend, the New York Times featured an article I Love You, Man (as a Friend) about the kinds of friendship that exists, and can exist, between a gay man and a straight man.
The article was one part interesting:
A more common source of friction, some gay men say, is the tendency of straight friends to see them only through the lens of sexual orientation. “I do have a lot of straight friends, but it’s harder to make real relationships with straight guys,” said Matthew Streib, 27, a gay journalist in Baltimore. “I feel like it’s always about my gayness for the first two months. First they have questions, then they make fun of it, then they start seeing me as a person.”
One part stereotyping:
. . . Unlike some other gay men interviewed, Mr. Estrin said he found it easy to socialize with heterosexuals. “I find straight men so uncomplicated,” he said. “They’re just easier.”
“The idea is that a gay friend will be more in tune to women and more likely to have female friends.”
“Every time I hang out with my gay friends, we have to spend half an hour talking about how they have to get to the gym or how fat they feel.”
And one part useful:
“There are a lot of straight guys on this planet,” he said. “I should probably learn how to talk to them.”
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