My Gay Closest Friend By Tony Bravo, Illustrated by Jenifer Wofford
My Gay Closest Friend By Tony Bravo, Illustrated by Jenifer Wofford
“C an you come beside me to your doctor? ” The written text had been from Jacqueline, my mate and confidante since 1852 (roughly) plus the girl that is only ever kissed. Don’t obtain the idea that is wrong we had been in Westside Story together whenever we had been 10.
If Jacs and I also needed each other, “yes” had been suggested. “Are you ill? ” We asked.
“It’s the sort of appointment where only my GBF is going to do. ”
Nothing more needed to be stated.
In bay area there are two main types of male/female pairings. One is the heterosexual coupling. The second is the GBF/straight woman duo. GBF: Gay Closest Friend. That’s my globe: certainly one of friendships that have lasted longer than romantic entanglements, hours conspiring inside our key language, as well as on a few occasions, trying to puzzle out what type of us the ambiguous guy that is hot striking on.
Like a Tibetan lama, GBFs are created, not made. I’ve developed a couple of theories concerning the reason behind these unique relationships.
1. Biology: Around puberty same intercourse inclined males usually become alienated from male peers at roughly the exact same moment girls are trained to look at feminine peers as competition. Hence, an alliance comes into the world.
2. Socio-politically: Historically, ladies and men that are gay been second-class residents in some sort of ruled by heterosexual guys as they are normal co-combatants because they battle the injustice of sexism.
3. Psychologically: among the unwanted effects of difficult childhoods is some gays create a capacity that is tremendous empathy and tend to be better friends due to it.