LPT: *Never* confess your feelings for your ostensibly straight best friend when coming out to them...

So, coming to terms with someone who's just come out to you is hard enough. Dealing with the fact that they've dropped a bomb on you that they love you is so much harder to deal with.The reality is the odds are stacked against you.Here's the secret: If there's a chance that something will happen between the two of you, the act of coming out alone will ensure that it happens. Gay guy are still guys. The tension will build until you both act on your feelings. If those feelings exist.If they don't exist, then you've just saved face and you've come out to your best friend. You haven't risked your friendship in the process and you'll know it won't happen.Confessing you undying love will just kill your friendship dead. It will become awkward and your friendship will drift apart.The reality is that you can get over a crush but losing a lifelong friendship isn't worth the risk. And there will be other guys that you'll feel just intensely about who will actually be into you...