Gaaah... lol. I knew I would have to explain that one. It may sound extremely weird, but this is how I met one of my good friends. Well, once I came out it spread like wildfire. One night a group of us went bar hopping, your typical night in Okinawa. There's this one guy in the group I didn't know too well, pretty huge dude (OVERLY huge bodybuilder type). He kept looking at me the WHOLE night
I figured he'd heard about me and didn't appreciate me being around, I shrug it off because everyone else was totally fine with it.
We ended up going back to a buddies' place to play some beerpong later that night, so naturally we all start getting wasted quick. Out of nowhere this dude starts screaming at me, saying stuff like "You should get kicked out of the military for lying about who you are" "You're going to hell" etc. This is before "Don't ask, Don't tell" got repelled so I could've really gotten into some trouble for coming out. I'm pretty calm the whole time, actually kind of amused at the situation because the guy was making a fool out of himself in front of everyone. Some people argued with him, but it was obvious this guy was blackout drunk and wasn't all there. I continue to ignore.
Next thing I know this guy flips the beerpong table and tackles me to the floor, chocking me and screaming. He's so freakin huge it takes like 4 guys to get him off me (pretty much right before I lost consciousness). I woke up a second later and he was gone. People wanted to call the cops but I told them I was fine and we finished playing beerpong and laughing at what a douche this guy is. I had slight bruising but nothing too crazy.
The next morning he sent me a FB message apologizing, I ignored him for a week but eventually we spoke in person (after he spent the whole week trying to talk to me of course!). He says it just threw him off that I was gay because I didn't "seem like one", I explained to him not all gays are like the ones you see on TV (and there's nothing wrong with them!). He also said he was completely wasted and only remembered bits and pieces from that night. We patched things up, but obviously it took a while before I was comfortable being around him. This happened a couple of years ago, when I tell you guys he's done a complete 180 that's an understatement. He's a pretty good friend of mine now. He always says how I "changed his life" with his opinion on gays. *tears* =D
TL;DR: Got attacked one night by a random homophobic asshat, eventually patched things up with said asshat, asshat is now a good friend a couple years later. =)