Gay in an intolerant area..

[Genersis]

....2 of my friends are gay and moved to Oregon to escape the southeastern culture. During a conversation with her and her husband and a good friend of mine in her car while on vacation, she expressed her perspective that men cannot have loving relationships with one another, and only do physical things because they are desperate. She blamed drugs for an insanity induced "fetish" of attraction.. and said that she felt sorry for my friends for straying from god.

Never touched drugs.
And that fact she doesn't "beleave" in gay love sounds like she comes from the "If it ain't straight, it ain't NOTHIN" school of though.

A bit like the following statements:

Its not love, its imagined love. As EVIL as chocolate!

When it's between too consenting men, its not SEX, it's SEXual perversion.

When between two men, its not marriage, its a perversion of nature and tarnishes what "Marriage" and "Love" stand for!
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Lovely.
Yeah, that area sounds pretty toxic to gay individuals.
I'd follow the others advice.
Its probably a good idea to make a move at some point in the future.