chances are unless you live under a rock or completely sheltered you've interacted with someone who is gay. my former best friend, the only gay person who ever was in my inner circle like that, came out to me after we graduated high school. i started noticing some little stuff here and there prior to that but because he talked about p*ssy so damn much and had a gf (not a beard at all) i shrugged it off as him wildin out or jokin around. Still he came out to me like a man and not a roundabout way so i was cool with it as long as he showed me the same respect in return. That i was straight and wasn't curious or any of that other shyt. Other than him telling me about guys and learning gay slang nothing changed that much. I hooked him up with this gay cat that worked with me at the time for his first gay relationship (random unexpected situation). unfortunately he had other problems that i wasn't too tolerant of and i stopped dealing with him like 4 years later.