Les Mate

[JenniferG]

So i found out last night that one of my best friends is a Lesbian! oh my god! im mean i always thought she was a bit different but i assumed her manly hobbies were to atrract men not to be like one! so what do i do now try and avoid? anyone got any experience in this? what if she tries it on with me or something eww! now i think about it as well she does have those wondering eyes!

[Ethmer]

"Oh for goodness sake JenniferG. She obviously thought enough of you as a friend to trust you with this, and you repay that trust by sounding narrow-minded, immature and ignorant."

The above answer and some of the others are uncalled for.

We all are raised in different environments and therefore have sometimes different perceptions on things. Not only right or wrong perceptions but perceptions of function and fact.

You sound like you might be young, so there is a great likelihood that you may not have been exposed to homosexuals, how they think or act.

In fact, they think and act just like normal people -- because they are normal people. They just have different sexual preferences than most other people we meet.

That doesn't make them right or wrong any more than one's skin color vs. another's makes either right or wrong.

As you mature you probably will come to tolerate and understand differences among people and allow them the right to be different -- to be themselves.

As long as it doesn't infringe upon your rights, different people have the right to do and be the way they choose. Your rights can't infringe upon theirs nor theirs on yours.

Consider yourself lucky that she is a best friend and is willing to confide in you. Your relationship need not change.

True friends are hard to come by and they are tolerant of their differences.