I don't observe the "girls-are-icky" factor as my two best gay friends love women and appreciate the female form (curves, not the supermodel sticks), even they are definitely sexually attracted to men rather than women.
As a female, how does it feel to be envied and sexually ignored by such men? They are as much your friends as any girlfriend... ie. they are cut-throat competitors to be Queen.
Useful for the moment, but hardly friends.