The curious thing is that I "lost" some acquaintances who didn't accept me being gay. Obviously I did not even worry about them because they were not really friends and they showed that they were not my friends because they stopped talking to me when I said I was gay.

My first friends were gay. The straight people I can call friends now, I met after I started coming out anyway.

YES… and YES...

ON LOSING FRIENDS - Well, turns out I never really needed them anyway...

ON GAINING FRIENDS - They are still my closest of friends today... and I'm very lucky to have found them

This is 100% true.  Coming out shows you more of who your real friends are.  Some friends come and go in your life.  It's only natural anyways.

And a real friend is there when the bumps in the road get too much.  You're better off without those who really didn't like you for you.  It hurts something fierce initially but later that burden you don't have to carry.

"I already have a gay friend. I can't have too many gay friends, people would think I'm gay"

it was hurtful that he couldn't make a room for another gay friend, but to this day though it pains me thinking about it, for some reason I couldn't resent him for this. after all, just 8 years of good friendship ended with a simple sentence.

Don't mean to be melodramatic 

One time in college, I was approached by one of my classmates who also went to the same high school with me, and asked if I was indeed gay. I said no, just bisexual, and didn't treat me any differently, which I like and prefer to the other guys.

I never lost any friends when I came out. But then again I really didn't hide like lots of guys do.
I just told people my barn door was open to all cowboys or cowgirls. Nobody on my football team ever said a word to me. I was still invited to part's and out on dates. Even hooked up with a couple of my teammates years later.
The only person I lost as a friend wasn't because of my being gay so much because he was very cool with it. But his wife some years later didn't feel comfortable with me and him going fishing and hanging out. So he kind of just quit speaking to me. But that was years after the fact.
family was a totally different story.
Most of my cousins avoid me like the plaque. Because most of us have had lots of sex together when we were kids.

Oh dear..

::)

Aside from her though, -every- person I've told over the 7 years since has been really accepting and I've made TONS of friends that replaced her.

I was lucky enough that every singe one of my real close friends was able to accept me when I came out to them.  :love:
I did have a few who were less supportive and decided to distance themselves, but we were never that close to begin with.

Lucky you!

;D