How to know if your bf is gay

Is my boyfriend same-sex attracted or am I crazy?
September 2, 2006 5:25 PM Subscribe

I am a female in my slow twenties dating a guy in his mid thirties. We live together and have been together a few years. It's the leading relationship I've ever had and I would like to marry him some day. Nevertheless I am sometimes plagued by fears that he's going to turn out to be gay.

The "evidence" I have collected in my feverish small brain is thus:

-He owns the movies "Lost Boys", "Y Tu Mama Tambien", My Hold Private Idaho" and the LOTR trilogy...all movies featuring homosexual love/sex scenes or subtext; he works out and lifts weights and dresses well and has more clothes than I do; he crosses his legs occasionally; he works in the lgbtq+ part of town (but not at a bar or anything); he told me he used to hang out with his friends at a homosexual bar in college b/c it was the only non-sports bar in town; his sister-in-law and a few other people (but not most of his social circle) reflection he might be gay because...he was single for eight (!) years before he met me AND he lived for two of those years with a roommate and close friend who IS thought to be gay by most

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I have a similar situation with my relationship. My boyfriends male lover friend is inLove with him and he doesn’t realize that. there is so many things that make me realize that.

1 they see each other once a week to drink in a bar, when they execute and get drunk, my boyfriends gay friend starts complementing him in front of me , like his handsome, touching his arm ( in a way that makes me uncomfortable), looking him with this in care for eyes. start making inappropriate joke

2 he had a picture of a naked guy that looks like my boyfriend and even he shows the pictures to everybody. and he start saying DOESNT HE LOOK LIKE HIM???

3 he told my boyfriend that he heard that i was dating one of his friends a couple of times( guy that I don’t even know). obviously lies.. don’t know what was exactly his intention.

4 he invited my boyfriend first to an island and a week after he mentioned and then he invited me .. ( last minute) obiously my crush didn’t go.

5 he always pays for everything, dinner, uber, all the drink in the lock ( mos

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