At the start I thought I was okay with it, since it’s really not my business who he sleeps with.
‘The problems started because of this: Alex brings guys home sometimes. I’m straight and he knows that, but I don’t feel threatened by him flirting with me and he says most straight guys do. At some point we became friendly enough with each other that we could even joke about it, as in, sometimes he’ll pretend to flirt with me and I’ll pretend to flirt back. ‘”Alex” has been my roommate for one year, and I pretty much knew upfront about him being gay. I had a gay friend in high school and we made it through some tough times together, I never felt weird about him dating a guy.
‘First things first, let me say that I’ve never thought of myself as being discriminatory before. But then when Alex started to bring guys home…he started getting annoyed, resentful, disgusted. When Alex told Mike he was gay, he was absolutely fine with it. “This straight guy, who we’ll call Mike, has been roommates with Alex for a year.
