Embarrassing relevant story time: One time in a ballroom dance class I was taking, I paired up with someone, then somehow epically messed up the handhold and accidentally interlocked fingers. She was horrified at the improper hand-holding and avoided me the rest of the semester
One day, me (male) went for a handshake with a pal (also male) and the moment we touched hands someone pushed him towards me, and I grabbed him to he wouldn't fall. The next thing we noticed is that our fingers were interlocked and I swear to god this is the day he won't even fistbump me due fear of the gay.
That happened similar to me to. Instead I was in the cafeteria and I went to get a soda from the soda machine. I was just about to push A3 (for a root beer) when another guy gently touched my fingers, almost liked he was caressing them. It was so awkward that we just stared at each other for a good ass 10secs until i realized. I left my root beer man... that was all the change I had :( Went back to see if the root beer was still there.... NADA cries in spanish
LMAO I don't know if i'm horrible for this but i have at least 2 gay friends in my group of friends (1 out to me, the other bi-curious) and most of us are touchy feely and open-minded so we are ULTRA gay (but only 4 of us know about each other), so its common for us to be holding hands or some shit as a joke. However, i take full advantage of that "joke" and get to do things like cling to my crush and holding her hand for a while.
TLDR: I am super gay with my friends as a joke and as a result I act the same way around my crushes and no one suspects a thing.