How many families don't have at least one gay person in it?

[NNN0LHI]

Bet there isn't one that doesn't meet that criteria. Most right wing teabagger person I know has a gay son. This fellow talks like he hates Obama when he is around his teabagger friends. But I say he might vote for him on this one issue alone. He really loves his son.

Don

[freshwest]

1. IDK any families without LGBTs. My kid's godfather is transgendered, and I could go down the list.

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[Warpy]

2. All the families who have exiled their gay children.

Sadly, that happens all too often, macho daddy being unable to take the fact that sonny boy isn't going to be a womanizing chip off the old blockhead or saintly mummy realizing that her sweet little girl isn't going to produce a son in law to brag about or grandchildren to show off. Those people have cut themselves off from the "gay contamination" in their families and are likely lost causes.

Everybody else has gay cousins, aunts and uncles, children, or parents. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Antigay bigots are a lot like racists. They might have friends or family in the target group who they accept and even like. It's all those "others out there" that they don't know whose rights they want to strip.

[Marrah_G]

3. I can't imagine there are many out there with none.

[MineralMan]

4. Extended families that include cousins, etc.,

almost always have LGBT members. Not all nuclear families do.

[treestar]

5. By family how far out does that extend?

Many of us would have none in our nuclear family, both childhood and descent. I don't have any that I know of even in extended family. But then that wouldn't be a good reason not to support equality. (Though I do lack the "anger" over the issue and will consider other issues and their impact - I can't make it my one issue).

[postulater]

6. None in my family or extended family

of around 25.

But I still see it as a civil rights issue and support the freedom to choose your partner.

[aikoaiko]

7. I would imagine not as many as you expept

What is a size of average family? 5 in the basic unit, 15 - 20 if you extend a generation up and down.

If homosexuality is a random event in the gene pool and we think there is 5 - 7% rate in the general population, then there would be a lot of 20 member family groups without someone was is gay or lesbian.

Or is my logic off?

[LynneSin]

8. If you had a relative who was a hateful bigoted teabagger would you tell them you are gay?

Back when I was on the fence about homsexuality (which was about 2 decades ago) I told my friend that my excuse for not liking gays was because I lived in a county where there wasn't any gay people. Her answer - do you think someone who is gay is going share that kind of information with someone who will judge them on it?

I'm not proud of the way I thought 20 some years ago but I'm glad that I was able to open my eyes and recognize that everyone deserves equal rights.

I remember a comment that Harvey Milk made back when they were fighting against Prop 6 in California. He wanted people to come out of the closet because he felt that if people knew someone who was gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender - they would be less likely to vote against them. I think that statement is very true.

[Johnny Rico]

9. None in my family or extended family. n/t

[sufrommich]

10. I agree. I have 3 gay people in my family,I don't

know anyone who doesn't have a gay person in their family. Right wingers always assume everyone is dripping with hatred like them, they're wrong.

[HappyMe]

11. I have a couple of cousins that are gay.

Nobody in the family rejected them, or puts up with anybody that messes with them.

[Kahuna]

12. There are a lot in my family, and my family

isn't particulary large.

[Chemisse]

13. None in my family or extended family.

Although it is possible I have one or two who have not made it generally public within the family yet.

[REP]

14. Here's an odd thing:

My family: straight and mostly liberal (and pro equal rights)

My husband's family: many gay family members and mostly conservative (votes Repub)

My husband is more like my family than his

[marions ghost]

15. three that i know of

although only one is out. All males.

[slackmaster]

16. That depends on what you mean by "family." If you don't count my lesbian aunt who has been disowned,

...then my family doesn't have any. That includes all of my siblings and first cousins. I do have a second cousin once removed who is a gay man. People suspected that one of my first cousins might be gay because he never dated, but it turned out he was just a late bloomer. He got married at 42, and just announced (at 51) that he and his wife are expecting their first child. He's never been gay or bi.

My aunt was disowned because she stole a bunch of money, not because of her sexual orientation which we've known about and accepted since the early 1960s. Nobody speaks to her or of her any more, at least among family. If you consider her to be a family member in spite of her ostracism, then I do indeed have one gay family member.