My [19NB] boyfriend's [24M] friends are very homophobic
Me and my boyfriend have been official for a couple of months now, but we've known each other for a bit over a year. He's a good guy, very caring and supportive, and we get along very well. However, I've sort of felt uncomfortable with his social circle... I haven't met his friends personally, nor would I ever want to because a lot of them are very bigoted. They would probably give me a lot of shit as I'm not very straight-passing. I'm sure not all of them are terrible, but my boyfriend has told me about some of the racist and homophobic things they've said. It's just really baffling to me because my boyfriend is very progressive and very much does not condone any of the bigoted shit his friends say... yet he continues to hang out with them? He says that it's due to nostalgia since he's been friends with them for a long time, but I'd personally rather have no friends than shitty friends. It also makes me feel kinda weird knowing that I don't and probably won't ever exist to this friends. Like why am I associating myself with someone who associates himself with people I disagree deeply with on a moral level. We're still able to hold hands in public, his family knows about our relationship, we've gone to pride events together... it's just his friends that he can't be open about being queer with. I don't know if I'm just overexaggerating this issue because he's still able to be a great boyfriend despite his bigoted friends, but it still makes me uncomfortable to be in a relationship with someone whose friends are very bigoted and would hate my guts. I guess I just don't understand how he's able to compartmentalize his friends from the rest of his life. There was a time where he wasn't in-touch with his friends for months, and I thought that maybe he had finally cut them off, but he's been hanging out with them more recently. I also think he gets a lot of his insecurities from his friends, as he'll be insecure about his masculinity which is often associated with homophobic rhetoric too. I guess I'm just not sure what to do. I've talked about it with him in the past, but it doesn't seem like he's planning on getting away from them anytime soon. He says he wishes he had a queer-friendly friend group like mine. I would involve him with my friends, but we don't hang out in-person as much anymore as everyone's pretty busy. I don't wanna be controlling by determining who he can be friends with. But it's hard to imagine myself being with someone in the long-term who has bigoted friends.
TLDR: Boyfriend has very bigoted friends and I feel uncomfortable but not sure what to do about it.
Has anyone else dealt with something similar? If so, what did you do about it?