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I once sat in a pub for an entire evening with an aggressively homophobic acquaintance who was constantly yammering on and on and on about hating 'the gays', and I was trying to find out why he had such a massive problem with it.
I hit on this idea of seeing how closeley I could walk him to the line through a Q&A session. It took hours, starting with "is it gay to look at another man?" and he'd be suspicious and refuse to answer without further definitions, so "You are dressed, he is dressed, you are both sat in a pub and you happen to look at each other.. are you gay"... it was great becuase he started off saying even things like that were gay 'unless the other bloke was asking him for matches to light a cigarette', so, okay, he's asking you for a light and you look at each other, is that gay?... no.
And we went on and on, carefully defining things. Touching a hand was gay, unless shaking hands, and then via shaking hands he got comfortable with a more general touching hands scenario and agreed it wasn't gay.
I got that bloke to such a mad, obviously homoerotic extreme scenario in the end. I forget what but I had massaged him enough through gradual increments to say he would be prepared to be naked in bed with his best friend spooning him while they held hands and kissed and it wouldn't be gay. It was fucking nuts.
Fucking idiot. He was so ashamed of admitting that when he'd sobered up that he never spoke to me again hahahaha