This is from a few years back, I was 23 at the time, had just finished college, found a job in LA, which is where I had gone to school, life was starting to take shape. That summer was when one of my good friends came out as gay. It wasn't too much of a surprise, but he needed support. He had been single for a while and wanted to start really looking, so I offered to go to a gay bar in Hollywood with him.