Alright so i know how the title sounds but bear with me. Ill first give a little backstory about our friendship before i write about my problem.

Ive know this friend (M22) since i was 8 years old. By 12 years old i lost touch with this friend as i had kind off left the friend group we were in at the time. Years later when i was 17, i started a new job at a store. To my surprise my friend was working there too. We weren’t particularly close when we were kids. We were friends because we were at the same friend group. We had both matured a lot since we saw each other for the last time. We both were starting going to the gym and we decided to go together. From that moment on we became incredibly good friends. We started basically training every day and work together at our job at night. The vibe was really well. It was like we were brothers. He knew i had his back, and i sure as hell he had mine as well. We even started a business together investing thousands. And even though we made a big net loss, im sure it thought us a lot of lessons. To summarize, we were amazing friends. Both at work as outside of work

We were literally amazing at our job causing us both to become supervisors at our store. He quit about year ago. He started a new job and for some reason we stopped training together. It just sort of happened. I didn’t really speak to him since. Ive talked to him a couple of times and to be honest they were quite good conversations. Sometimes you just get out of touch with someone.

Now let me explain my problem. A couple of months ago i got kind of curious, so i downloaded grindr. Lets just say that men aren’t my thing. Absolutely no judgement to people who are! I love everybody.

When i showed my friend something on my phone, a grindr notification popped up. He literally froze for a second. We both pretended we didn’t see it. But i know he saw it.

This incident happend like a month before he decided to get another job. He was already looking for something new. Things just have been different. It was at this point that we got out of touch. (Right after he quit)

Recently we started hitting the gym together again and he has been making these remarks which i feel are about the grindr popup.

To give you an example. He said something to which i replied, thats something that a gay person

(this is an inside joke between me and him and is in no way meant in a derogatory way)

would say to which he seriously replied: how would you know and looking at me with expectation. I knew he was referring to the popup.

The next training sesh he started talking about how sometimes you think you know someone but it turns out you don’t know them at all.

I know he thinks i am gay but i am not. I don’t want to admit i had grindr on my phone but i also want him to know i am not a homosexual. Once again no judgement to people who are, i just don’t want to be misidentified. I’ve been waiting for him to say something so i could completely call him crazy. What could i possibly do to get hom to know im not gay without admitting i had the app?

TL:DR : my friend caught a popup notification of a gay hookup app on my phone. I had downloaded the app out of curiosity but i am not gay but now he thinks i am. How can i fix this