To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.

Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Enjoy your relationship with your boyfriend and don't worry about the people or situations you dream about. Once you wake up, they're over; let them go.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.