And that was not at all the image I had of my best friend . He said that he would n't be able to be himself with me , and I would have felt like a hypocrite if I did n't accept ALL of him . And the out of sight out of mind , would n't work for him , he said . And I thought that to me it would have worked just fine , not talking about it or thinking about it .
Question: What might the friend have been trying to tell him that he was scared might not be accepted ?
The answer to the above question:


That he was gay