In honor of Muserider and TXwhitedove tell us about a straight person who helped you through

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a tough time you had due to being gay. For me it was Mike, who stayed up with me all night when I fell apart over my secret coming out.

On edit This isn't honor in the sense that they are gone or ill but to recognize them as the great friends of gays that they are.

[Horse with no Name]

1. I am not trying to disrupt your thread

so please forgive me, where are muserider and txwhitedove?
Are they okay?
Again, my apologies.

[Toasterlad]

3. Muserider Checked In the Other Day, So I'm Assuming She's Fine

I'm not familiar with txwhitedove.

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4. see edit

to my knowledge they are both here and fine.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Thanks. Glad to hear it

Sorry for the disrupt.:)

[mitchtv]

2. for me it was my older married sister

who was having a tough time and had a bunch of kide of her own, and a bum for a husband, I was 18 ish and was having a tough time in my neighborhood, he took me in

[Toasterlad]

5. My Buddy Evan.

He was the first straight non-family member I came out to. He took it so well and immediately assured me that our friendship would not change at all. I was flabbergasted months later when he told me that he used to be homophobic, but, while he was in college, he lived on a dorm room with a guy who came out...not a guy he knew well, just someone he'd nod hello to. He watched this guys friends all completely abandon him and shun him from then on. That's when he realized how stupid homophobia is: that nothing about this guy had changed, and yet his friends completely abandoned him over something so innocuous. He's been cool with gay people ever since.

He gives me hope that most straight people can be taught to overcome their irrational bigotry.