A classmate 'joked' at me "Oh shit, you turned (ex's name) gay apparently! You must be so embarrassed." I shrug it off as a weird thing to say...
Still being friendly with my exes... when I see her later and am actually kind of excited that she was 'out' or such.
"Wow, didn't know you came out. That's pretty cool."
"Huh? Why would you say that?"
"(Classmate) said so."
"Oh, no he just asked me out and I couldn't think of a nice way to turn him down."
This was late 90s early '00s... sure it was pretty acceptable to be gay... but she was straight up ready to burn her whole rep and it get back to her religious parents... because she didn't want to date this dude.