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Wow, Cary read way to far into this guy's words.
He just wants to go out and be seen as a well dressed couple, instead of a gay guy and his hippy friend.
How hard was that to parse? Somehow the fact that he didn't care about the situation got turned into "anxiety and discomfort" over his homoerotic desires?
Where'd you get that from? Maybe he's secure enough to laugh off another guy hitting on him.
I think your desire to twist his question into something homoerotic suggests far more about your socialization than his. Is it really that impossible for a straight guy to hang out with gays & and still be... you know, straight?