I confessed to a friend about me being gay
Hello, I wanted to talk about my confession to a friend who's very soon becoming an occupational therapist and did research on adolescent and teen psychology.
For context, I live in a very homophobic country, so my decision to tell him about me being gay wasn't taken lightly at all, only after careful consideration and trust did I decide to confess; I do also have a crush on the guy but that's another thing.
It happened today, when he started asking me random questions (on Instagram DMs), I instantly knew he was basically going into therapist mode, (whatever that may be haha), and I went along with it, he asked me about my dating life, and really I'm a very honest person and I told him that I'm not really attracted to girls, which obviously pushed him to question me about if I liked boys or not, at first I tried to make it seem like I wasn't aware of my sexuality but afterwards I decided to bite the bullet and tell him after he pushed me for an answer and reassured me, that this is between us, I've known him for a year now and he's a very nice and chill guy.
I spent the rest of the either answering certain questions about mt sexuality, and certain aspects of it, and I got the idea that even if he's trying to show acceptance and no judgement, he belives it may due to some sort of trauma I suffered through or persistent thoughts, I disagree of course; I debated him for the entire evening on the topic and did my best to convince him.
I've been trying to convince him that homosexuality is not pathological disease of sorts, and I'm still trying to do so.
I want you guy's advice on this topic through a scientific lens.
Also he thinks American scientific research is unreliable because of certain biases.
Thanks for the help!
Edit: fixed a couple typos.