Your brother met someone, was immediately concerned about why he was crying, and it stuck with him weeks after never seeing him again.
That’s a wonderful display of empathy, not just some childish complaint. When we talk about how boys and socialized differently from girls, this is it. How we respond to kid’s feelings is how they perceive their own emotions. And if we cue that it is something they ought to grow out of, they will grow out of it.
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans’s “homosexual activity was not unwelcome, because it was seen to reduce any potential threat he may have posed to his older brother.”
That is a rare instance where being straight was more dangerous.
Straight pride is stupid.