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Poll: Do you have gay relatives? Gay friends? Transgendered family/friends?

Do you have gay and/or transgendered family/friends? o

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My wife has a gay uncle and I have a gay Cousin and Aunt. Wife's Uncle and his partner have been together about 5 years now which is how we all found out he was gay. Both of them are good dudes, and I have no issue hanging around them when they are in town. Although there jokes can get a bit raunchy! My Cousin has had several relationships in which none seem to last more than a couple months. No big difference than when she had boyfriends in the past. My Aunt is awesome. She would do anything for anyone. When I lived in California she was my favorite person. Very funny and loved the outdoors. I don't get to see her much anymore since we live so far apart and both have to work.

All in all I see they have the same troubles we all have. With relationships, Money, Etc. I don't want to know what they do in their bedroom same as I wouldn't go around talking about what I do in mine.
 
Gina said:
It's possible some people would be comfortable coming out too. The percentages would make that very likely.
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I also have a lot of relatives that live in other parts of the country that I don't know, so I could have some gay relatives and I just don't know it.
 
ChrisL said:
I also have a lot of relatives that live in other parts of the country that I don't know, so I could have some gay relatives and I just don't know it.
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Very true. I could have more. I have never met 9 of my first cousins. My mom was a change of life baby, so I'm very removed in age from them.
 
Yes, I have gay relatives, friends/acquaintances.
No, I do not have transgendered relatives/friends that im aware of
 
I don't understand why people go in the closet in this day and age, let alone be so allegedly tortured about coming out of it.
 
I have one neice who is gay and appears to have GID, and a few gay friends at work. I figure that's not at all unusual.
 
Fisher said:
I don't understand why people go in the closet in this day and age, let alone be so allegedly tortured about coming out of it.
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My grandmother, to this day, refuses to acknowledge my uncle being gay.

He wasn't incredibly feminine, but he did have the traditional lisp. He grew up in rural Alabama, went off to college, got his degree in accounting (followed his footsteps) at University of Alabama (not in that aspect - I went to a real business school). He eventually got a job in Atlanta and lived up there.

She'll swear to this day that he just had a guy "roommate"...of several years. He wasn't married because "he was so involved in his career". I mean, he was involved in his career, but c'mon...
 
Gipper said:
My grandmother, to this day, refuses to acknowledge my uncle being gay.

He wasn't incredibly feminine, but he did have the traditional lisp. He grew up in rural Alabama, went off to college, got his degree in accounting (followed his footsteps) at University of Alabama (not in that aspect - I went to a real business school). He eventually got a job in Atlanta and lived up there.

She'll swear to this day that he just had a guy "roommate"...of several years. He wasn't married because "he was so involved in his career". I mean, he was involved in his career, but c'mon...
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I am assuming that his teen years were a long time ago. I guess I should have put it more like--I get why old folks did it, but I see no reason for younger people to ever go in the closet to begin with.
 
Fisher said:
I am assuming that his teen years were a long time ago. I guess I should have put it more like--I get why old folks did it, but I see no reason for younger people to ever go in the closet to begin with.
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Well, I don't think most would be ostracized any more, but I can imagine why it might not be something they want to highlight.
 
I have gay friends and relatives. I vaguely know a couple transgendered people, but not especially well.

I've known gay people since I was little; my mother was a landlord in Minneapolis, which is apparently now the gayest city in the US.

It always seemed very intuitive to me that they're just regular people and they deserve to have the same rights as other people. I didn't even realize it was a thing until I was in my teens.
 
No gay relatives. However, I have met a few gay people in my time. One or two of them have been close enough acquaintances to be members of the extended social circle I hang out with at one time or another.

I don't actively seek out gay "friends" due to general awkwardness and discomfort with the idea, but I'm not going to deliberately run them off either.
 
Yes i have several gay friends and i had a gay roommate.
 
I have had more gay friends than I could shake my stick at.
 
I know a couple of transgendered people, but would not count them as friends or relatives.

Curious that you left bisexuals off your list. An oversight maybe?
 
I have several gay relatives.

I have several gay friends.

I do not currently know any transgendered people, but have in the past(and they where hilarious). I did kinda grow tired of seeing Ricky's boobs though. Do not have to see how the hormone treatment is working every single time you come over....
 
joko104 said:
I know a couple of transgendered people, but would not count them as friends or relatives.

Curious that you left bisexuals off your list. An oversight maybe?
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Yes, an oversight but it was worse to leave off the option that the respondent is LBGT.
 
joko104 said:
I know a couple of transgendered people, but would not count them as friends or relatives.

Curious that you left bisexuals off your list. An oversight maybe?
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Oh I know LOTS of bisexual women.

You have to leave it off the list because ANYONE who says they don't know any women who are bisexual is beyond deluded. Hell, I'd argue that more women are bi than completely straight.

For the sake of argument, bi also includes "bi-curious".
 
Gina said:
Inspired by Redress' post regarding Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin attending the Supreme Court arguments on SSM, I wondered how many DP'ers have gay relatives and friends. As people are more and more comfortable with coming out, I think it's more likely than ever that most of us have gay relatives and friends.

For my part, two of my deceased uncles were gay. I also have had numerous gay friends and acquaintances over the years. One of my extended members is undergoing gender reassignment.
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Not that I'm aware of, but I live in a small Texas town where you just don't announce that kind of thing.
 
I have at least one gay friend......I use to be friends with his partner but sadly he died from AIDS....I have no relatives who are gay that I know of.
 
Not only do I have gay friends and have gays in my extended family ... I even have straight friends and family (in fact, even my wife is straight) ...
 
Surtr said:
Not that I'm aware of, but I live in a small Texas town where you just don't announce that kind of thing.
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I understad, but it's too bad that if there are LGBT people there, and given the poll results and percentages of the nation it's likely, they don't feel welcome to come out.
 
Gina said:
I grew up without the realization they were gay. They were both married, one twice, so I didn't have that to consider, but, I did later take note that one lived with men ever after his last divorce and finally asked my mom if he was gay. "Oh heavens! I thought you knew!" LOL She taught me to accept people as they are and without making an issue of differences. Guess it worked and I nothing changed my opinion of them after I knew.

Their parents, as far as I know, never accepted that their sons were gay. It was never spoken of and the rest of the siblings, if any were anti-gay, never made an issue of it. No one ever boycotted a family reunion because they would attend.
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Back then sometimes most everyone knew but they didn't talk about it or only a few knew and everyone whispered about it. There wasn't much in between. Today, the gay couples show up for Thanksgiving.

I like today's world better.
 
calamity said:
Back then sometimes most everyone knew but they didn't talk about it or only a few knew and everyone whispered about it. There wasn't much in between. Today, the gay couples show up for Thanksgiving.

I like today's world better.
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I do too. My kids have grown up thinking, "What's the big deal?".
 
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