Ok well I've been put in a frustrating situation recently with my friends IRL. Me and my friends get along great and have always supported my sexuality and me as a person, but lately I've been getting annoyed by them. Ever since I came out to my peers, a lot has changed. I went from a brooding loner with very few friends to a happier openly gay person with lots of new friends. While I know that my mood being more cheerful has been a large factor in gaining more friends and a better reputation, I have started to notice a lot of the negative things about being out. I'm not refering to the serious homophobes and religious nuts, I'm refering to the kinds of people who seem to like me only BECAUSE I'm gay. I started to become friend with lots of girls, but being one of 3 gay men in my town (with the other 2 being a couple) I was alone for quite awhile. Where I'm going with this is that nowadays, dispite having many friends, I carry around the label of "the gay one". Even though they mean well, I still get poked at for being gay because I'm too nice and there's not really much else to have any ground to tease me for. It not mean teasing, but its getting old and annoying. Specifically when my friends jokingly introduce me as "their gay friend". It's not fair that I have to carry around that title. I'm not being oversensitive because i'm just now saying this after it has gone on for close to 2 years now. I've made mentions about this to them before, but not im really going to sit them all down and be blunt. The other thing is all the straight girls who think that just cause im gay, im ok with them constantly trying to hug me, touch me, grope me, etc. or walk around in a skimpy outfit or in one girls case, actually change clothes in the room without telling me to leave. I am NOT ok with that. I shouldn't have to explain why. The female body doesn't disgust me, but it does make me uncomfortable and i don't wish to see that. Well thanks for reading my rant. comment if you want.