sorry to add on to you but if those kind of people who have become friends with them actually saw places like the Folsom fair etc then they would look at their new found homosexual friends differently
maybe that is why the media refuses to show these kind of things
You are 100% correct. It’s one thing to be acquainted with a polite, smiling “gay” person. It’s quite another to know them well. I am a woman. I had several gay male friends like brothers (all dead in their 40s). Their “gayness” papered over a huge amount of pain and self-loathing.