text: Well for starters, those are not your friends. Those are acquaintances. When they push you away, you learn that they will never become more than that.\n\nI am sorry that you continue to encounter such closed minded people. It isn't your fault.\n\nI think the only solution to this is to tell these people, upon first encounter, that you are not straight. Maybe these people get all paranoid and think back to past experiences, and wonder if you secretly have had a crush on them the entire time. Lame I know, but people are so egocentric these days.