Is this the same bro I've always had?

Finally came out to my brother. We were at a bar Saturday night and some girl came over and started blatantly hitting on me. Anyway, I was pretty drunk but I remember something about like this. .

Brother: "Hey that girl totally wants your @$#@, you gonna get on that?
Me: "Dude, I'm gay...so, have at it..."
B: "*Stares* (Orders 4 shots ("Shaved Beaver" shots of course lol) and tells me to come sit down, demands I take the shots with him)What? Did you mean that?"
Me: "Yup, get this poor woman away from me"
B: "Are you sure?
Me: "Uh, I'm pretty sure..."
B: "How do you know?"
Me: "What you want me to go into detail or something?"
B: "Um... Yea kind of... (still hilarious puzzled look on face*)

and I just laughed and shrugged the question off...

I probably wouldn't have done it without all the liquid courage in me but it is what it is I guess, and I really didn't know what to do about the girl hanging all over me lol...

Thought he'd leave me at the bar and tell everyone and/or punch me, this is my ex iraq war vet brother who defines the word "straight" after all. But he's been really calm and seems to not really care, which is awesome. I'm really happy about this, I feel lovable again. Like at least someone can know and still give a shit about me. My mom knows too, but she still tries to introduce me to girls and complains about how she wanted to have grandchildren to me and occasionally goes into the typical religious bull$. rants (my 'brother'=technically half brother, mutual father) so... The rest of my family is horribly homophobic and he realizes this and he's been really understanding about it, told me he'd always have my back and everything. He even said he'd watch his language around me and everything and that he doesn't mean everything he says too so... It's really given me a new outlook on life, as cliche` as that sounds... Honestly I might not have made it this far without EC, everyone here has been really helpful through all this because up until now I really have had zero people to talk to in person, ever, so thanks.

I'm getting closer to the point where I'm finally ok enough with it, where I can handle the hate, and stop living in fear.