HOMOPHOBE FRIEND!?

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by maracaboiis

by maracaboiis

OK, I really need some advice.

So here in Australia, there is this thing going on. It's a postal survey for marriage equality. It's quite dumb because even if the 'yes' vote wins, gay marriage still won't be legal until the proper voting, this is just a pointless, expensive survey to see if we should do an official vote.

Stupid, I know, but that's beside the point right now.

Since I am not old enough to vote, I've been trying my best to promote the yes vote as much as I can.

I had posted a picture on my Snapchat story with random rainbow emojis and stuff, and a banner down the bottom that said how many days left there were to vote.

After posting that, I found out that my super religious friend was bi!! I was so proud of her coming out. She said I was and we talked for a while and after promising, I wouldn't tell anyone else I noticed a message from one of my best friends.

The message said, "you were going to vote no, right?"

My first reaction was breaking into laughter. Like bish do all those rainbows make it look like I'm voting no wtf

But as soon as I recovered from my laughter I felt really sad. One of my friends had just come out to me literal seconds ago and now this?

I was even planning on meeting up with the both of them together since I hadn't seen either for a long time, but this just made everything awkward. I knew one was against gays, and the other was bi, but they didn't know those facts about each other. I still plan on meeting up with them, but I know I'm gonna feel super awkward the whole time. What should I do?

Anyway, I calmly answered with, "No I 100% would have voted yes" and we agreed to disagree.

But today I posted something about marriage equality again.

Again that friend decided to message me saying, "NOOOOO all the way!"

Now, this came off as incredibly rude to me. I've known her for five years and don't think she was trying to be rude. She's a sweetheart, but seriously? That's a really rude way of putting it, especially since she already knew that I supported it.

I have LGBT friends and know of many LGBT+ people and it makes me really uncomfortable when she says stuff like that to me I don't know how to respond.

I'm conflicted now. I don't want to drop her as a friend because I'm too close to her. I don't want to try and convince her to change her opinion in case she gets offended, but at the same time, it's hard for me to ignore it.

Maybe I should send her subliminal messages by adding gay shit to my Snapchat story.

(I was joking)

This probably isn't a huge deal, but I love my friend and it hurts me to know she has these opinions what do I do??