Saturday, December 25, 2010

Every Straight Girl Needs a Gay Best Friend (or Several!!)

I've recently started watching a great new show on the Sundance Channel called "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys," and I have to say that I am falling in love with it! It is such a great celebration of straight women and their gay best friends, and I look forward to this guilty pleasure every week.

Since high school, I have always had several gay friends.  Some have popped in and out of my life, but there are those chosen few who have managed to find a special place in my heart. I think the two lists below, which I borrowed from the show's website, absolutely sum up why I love my gay best friends.

Top 10 Reasons Every Straight Girl Needs a Gay Best Friend
  1. Keeps Male Murder Rate Down
  2. Will Never Steal Your Date
  3. Girl Friends Are Stressful
  4. Parades
  5. If Gay Men Like You, You Are Probably Cool
  6. They Never Think You Are Mean
  7. Stupid People Don't Know How Great Gays Are
  8. Sarah Palin Rallies (LMAO)
  9. Reality Checks
  10. Fake Boyfriend
Top 10 Reasons Gays Need Girls
  1. Girls Make Us Laugh
  2. Our Mothers Are Girls
  3. Our Icons Are Girls
  4. Girls Dance Better
  5. Sometimes We May Need a Beard
  6. They Share Our Crushes
  7. They're Romantics
  8. Their Bathrooms
  9. Handbags
  10. Shoulders to Cry On
**Lists borrowed from the "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys" website**
http://www.sundancechannel.com/girls-who-like-boys-who-like-boys/

Even during the darkest of times with my dating debacles and with tumultous friendships, my gay friends have always been there. They have fulfilled each and every one of the roles listed above (and then some), although sometimes I think I enjoyed the parades more than they did, especially since I was the co-chair for a pride festival for two years!!

My gay best friends are always there to make me feel better about the opposite sex whenever a mean guy breaks my heart. They make me smile and laugh. They are there to bitch to and always listen, and after I'm done pouring my heart out they always make me feel fabulous about myself in ways that I sometimes I don't feel after similar conversations with my girlfriends (not that I don't love them also). I love going shopping with them and "gossiping" about what's new, who's new, and how great our latest sexual exploits have been. On more than one occasion, they have stood in as the fake boyfriend or the date to a wedding, special function, and just a general "date night."

I LOVE MY GAY BEST FRIENDS! They are some very special people, and I would fight for them and their rights with my last breath (and I have been for years). Once you have found your gay best friend, don't let him go! They are fiercely loyal, great listeners, know how to treat a woman (because they all really do love their mothers), make great confidants and partners, and will bring something special to your life that you didn't know you were missing until you met them. I highly recommend that every straight girl find herself a gay best friend.  You're life is so incomplete without one, I promise! I am very blessed because I have so many, including a couple new, younger ones that I absolutely adore! 

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