What does it mean to give a straight answer?

A straight answer is a clear answer to the question, without meandering.

What to say if someone asks if you’re straight?

Tell it like it like it is if it doesn’t bother you. However, if it does, you could say, I’m flattered that you think you know me well enough to ask such a personal question. “Yes.” A completely honest and truthful answer — you are gay or you are straight.

What does it mean when someone doesn’t give a straight answer?

Someone who could be: Biased toward something and does not want to admit that their argument for it works. The question they got asked caught them off guard and they haven’t thought through an answer. They are pretending to know about a topic but actually do not.

What should you not say when someone comes out?

Here are a couple of frequently-asked questions that you should absolutely, definitely not ask if someone is coming out to you.

• 1 “When did you ‘decide’ to be gay?”
• 2 “But my religion is against gays – people like you.”
• 3 “You’re not into me, are you?”

What to say when a friend comes out to you?

Thank them for telling you. Choosing to come out to you means that your friend trusts you and wants you to share in a significant event in their life. Try saying something like, “I know it may not have been easy to come out, and I really appreciate you trusting me enough to share this with me.”

How do you respond to someone coming out as non binary?

To call being trans or non-binary a choice is to imply that my gender is fake, and it decidedly is not. Ditto saying your friend’s new name or pronouns are “preferred” — they’re not preferred, they’re correct. So thank your friend for coming out to you, and honor that trust by not calling their gender a choice.

What to say to a person who came out?

Here are seven affirming and helpful things that an LGBTQ person needs to hear when coming out.

• ‘I love you’
• ‘What can I do to help?’
• ‘I support you’
• ‘What can I do to improve?’
• ‘If/when you’re ready, let’s talk more’
• ‘Let’s look into resources’
• ‘Thank you’