Is it possible for a straight guy to "fall in love" with a gay guy?

Is it possible? I keep thinking it could be possible, not in the sexual manner but in the romantic manner.

• Hard to imagine such a relationship.

• No. Straight men only fall in love with gay men in gay men's fantasies, even if it is purely romantic/nonsexual. But doesn't romantic love always lead to some form of sexual expression? A straight guy can love his gay friend in a fraternal bonding sort of way, but it would never go further than that.

• No. If a "straight" guy falls in love with a gay man, he isn't straight. The end.

• Can't straight guys fall in love in a "bromance" kind of way?

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• Is it possible for a straight guy to fall in love, period?

• I have a life-long friend that I was inseparable with - we lived together for about a year and slept together every night - but never had sex. And there were other places to sleep in the house. We started out just watching TV together and would fall asleep. It just became the "norm" while we were living together. Sleep included hugging and spooning. He's been with the same female for about 6 years now and we are all friendly.

• From a 2013 American gay male viewpoint, of course such a thing would be considered impossible. Things can only be black or white. There is no nuance. No sophistication. But in some other cultures around the world, male relationships can have surprisingly blurred edges.

• R7, what cultures are these then? In Europe, for example, male friendship can be more openly affectionate than it is in the US, but that doesn't mean that straight guys "fall in love" with each other, or with gay guys, which was the OP's original question.

• [quote] Can't straight guys fall in love in a "bromance" kind of way? As I've posted elsewhere, I'm working with a young straight married man - less than half my age - who has told another co-worker that we're having a bromance.

• They may enjoy your company when they are lonely. But that's all.

• Not in the sexual manner but the romantic manner? You mean the way I'm in love with Audrey Hepburn? Sure, why not?

• Yes, of course it's possible. I don't know why people are giving you a negative response like it's an impossibility. Brideshead Revisited was about this very matter, after all.

• OP, quit wasting your time. most straight guys are homophobic.

• [quote]most straight guys are homophobic. The worst homophobes are the ones who know they're not very straight and hope that nobody will notice. They preach against gays like Ted Haggard and Bishop Eddie Long, they write books condemning gays like George Rekers, they vote against gay rights like Larry Craig, Lindsey Graham, and Aaron Schock. Guys who are straight don't have any concerns about gays.

• R3 Got it.

• I have a straight friend who is in love with me. We go to dinners together, the theater, have long intense conversations. The only thing he said was missing was the sex. For that he had to get it from his wife but his wife doesn't intellectually stimulate him or share his interests in culture.

• R8, Turkey for one.

• "Guys who are straight don't have any concerns about gays." LOL.

• Only if they're hawt and under 30.

• Well I'm a gay woman who "fell in love" with a straight guy. I was young, we had an emotional connection, and he fulfilled an absence in my life. I never wanted it to be sexual, but I had the same intense emotional feelings for him that I had with girls I had been in love with. I look back at that "relationship" and feel rather embarrassed by it, not because I "fell" for a guy, but because it feels odd to me now that I could have had such strong feelings for someone I never was physically intimate with.

• Yeah if he was gay.