Manners for a straight man on meeting a gay man:

• Do not run screaming from the room. This is very rude.
• If you must back away, do so, but slowly and with discretion.
• Do not assume that he is attracted to you.
• Do not assume that he is not attracted to you.
• Do not assume that you are not attracted to him.
• Do not expect him to be excited about meeting a straight person, as you may be about meeting a gay person.
• Do not invite him to some place where there will only be straight people. He may not want to be with them.
• Do not talk about your significant other to make it clear that you are straight. He probably already knows.
• Do not ask him how he got this way. Instead, ask how you got that way.
• Do not assume he is dying to talk about being gay.
• Do not expect him to refrain from talking about being gay.
• Do not ask him what the hell he can do with a person his same gender. If you really are curious, just try.
• Do not trivialize his experience by assuming it is a bedroom experience only; he is gay twenty-four hours a day.
• Do not assume his heart will leap with joy if you touch his arm. It may make him angry.
• Do not assume because he is gay that he wants to be treated like the opposite sex. He will probably get angry.
• Think twice before you attempt to tell him that he is taking the easy way out.
• Do not expect a gay person to accept the straight world simply because it is in the majority.

(The above was used by permission from an International Gay site by two Apollo Network men. For more of their excellent web page, Click Here.