- Do not run screaming from the room. This is rude.
- If you must back away, do so slowly and with discretion.
- Do not assume they are attracted to you.
- Do not assume they are not attracted to you.
- Do not expect them to be as excited about meeting a
heterosexual as you may be about meeting a gay person
(they were probably raised by straight people)
- Do not immediately start talking about your boy/girlfriend or
husband/wife in order to make it clear that you are straight -
they probably already know.
- Do not ask them how they got that way. Instead ask yourself
how you got the way you are.
- Do not assume they are dying to talk about being gay.
- Do not expect them to refrain from talking about being gay.
- Do not trivialize their experience by assuming it is a
bedroom issue only. They are gay 24 hours a day.
- Do not assume they want to be treated like the opposite sex.
- If you are tempted to tell them they are taking the easy way
out, don't.
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