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I have a female friend who found out that a male high school friend of hers (her prom date, actually) was gay. They had remainded friendly through their 20s and 30s and she was quite upset when he announced his "coming out" to her.
Back in high school I was seeing a boy that a lot of the girls I knew thought was so cute and slightly chastised me when broke up with him. At the time I couldn't understand why I did it, either. I just had the weirdest feeling that something was not quite right with him. A year later rumors (that turned out to be true) were going around that he was homosexual.

When I was a sophomore in high school I was President of my Class, I struck up a wonderful friendship with the guy who was President of the Senior Class. This guy was brilliant. Most likely to succeed, etc. We had a great friendship. He went off to Yale to study Law and I finished high school and we remained friends. several years later some old high school guy I wasn't really friends with popped up at some event. He was blatantly gay. Really out there. I kind of was ignoring him and he got in my face and said, 'YOU KNOW WHO MY FIRST LOVER WAS? YOUR FRIEND WAYNE," I was shocked. It's not that I didn't want to see, it just never crossed my mind back then. I called him up at Yale and I said to him that I had heard something disturbing today. He said, "You heard I was gay." Turns out he was having relationships in High School and I truly didn't know. He was very discreet and it wasn't the core of his identity.

He ended up practicing law in San Francisco and has had the same boyfriend for over 25 years.

When I was a sophomore in high school I was President of my Class, I struck up a wonderful friendship with the guy who was President of the Senior Class. This guy was brilliant. Most likely to succeed, etc. We had a great friendship. He went off to Yale to study Law and I finished high school and we remained friends. several years later some old high school guy I wasn't really friends with popped up at some event. He was blatantly gay. Really out there. I kind of was ignoring him and he got in my face and said, 'YOU KNOW WHO MY FIRST LOVER WAS? YOUR FRIEND WAYNE," I was shocked. It's not that I didn't want to see, it just never crossed my mind back then. I called him up at Yale and I said to him that I had heard something disturbing today. He said, "You heard I was gay." Turns out he was having relationships in High School and I truly didn't know. He was very discreet and it wasn't the core of his identity.

He ended up practicing law in San Francisco and has had the same boyfriend for over 25 years.