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Your friends are absolutely right in telling you to never do that again. It was an incredibly dick move to invite them to be the token gays around a bigot without telling them what's up. He was 100% correct, you put them in danger without their consent or knowledge. Like, if you don't profusely apologize and recognize what a completely fucking selfish and stupid thing you did by putting them in that situation, you may have done irreparable harm to your friendship with them.
Oh you thought if the homophobe was just around gay people he'd magically change his way of thinking? Are you out of your fucking mind? This isn't a fucking game for us, it's our fucking lives. Your Russian dipshit really could have pulled out a knife or gun and attacked, and you know what? It wouldn't have been unexpected.
It's like if you had a dangerous pitbull that had warmed up to you and you wanted to see how it reacted around other people. So you invited a bunch of people over without telling them they would be around a dangerous pitbull.
Sorry for ranting, but holy shit this pissed me off. Your gay friends must have the patience of fucking saints to have not slapped the shit out of you for pulling that stunt. I certainly would have.