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"Aren’t you afraid people will think you’re gay?" is what I get a lot for being friends with Krista. Damn, if I knew it was going to cause this much of a stir I would have dropped her ass a long time ago…. just kidding! Gay or straight, Krista is truly my best friend. Yes, people pass judgment and yes, it gets annoying, but I could care less. I mean hey, I’m not faultless... I’m black!

I don’t really know what it’s like to have a true GAY friend. Kris and I dress pretty much the same...comfortable. She’s not the flashy type of gay who you could just look at and be like 'yep, she’s a homo.' I actually find myself wanting to be engulfed in the "gay culture." I go out to gay bars and clubs and I have an absolute ball! I actually feel really comfortable with them. The scary, monster gays, that is. They don’t judge me. Well, they do judge but it’s not about my race; more so about peoples clothes and makeup. Not about me being "whitewashed" or "black" in an upper-middle class neighborhood.

Maybe I’m the ignorant one, but I don’t see any difference between having a girl friend that is straight or gay. It’s not like Kris or my other gay friends are trying to turn me gay! Hell, I might actually be happier if I could be gay. None of this marriage and baby pressure. To sum it up, Kris is badass even though she prefers boobs to pecks!

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It's kind of funny/interesting to get this different perspective. Outside perspective, persay. I think I, as well as a lot of gay people I know, have surrounded ourselves with completely accepting people so it's weird to hear that people are still being...well, typical. It's slightly bothersome that people question people about whether or not their gay friend is trying to "turn them gay." I thought that whole idealogy was extinct. Guess not.

An example that directly relates to this post: Jurica (it's obviously no secret who wrote that, haha) told me that Kaley's family, whom I've known since childhood, asked her one time if people think she's gay when she goes out with me. I think her answer was something like "I don't really know or care." My answer to that is a question: Does going out with Jurica make me black?

But really......people need to wake up and stop making idiotic, baseless assumptions. Does opening the refrigerator make you a bottle of milk? Does going to a Cowboys game make you a Cowboy? Does shopping at White Barn make you a candle? I can keep going until my point has been thoroughly proven.