Is anyone in your family gay?

I'm willing to be that most people are not affected by gay marriage and couldn't care less who anyone outside their family marries.

Unless my family is unusual, I bet this isn't an issue for most families.

I do not care, have met his SO, great person... only thing I had to say, when they asked is... be safe guys. (Former medic they asked at the height of the AIDS epidemic, so yes we had a public health kind of education)

I also have two step nieces who happen to be gay, well my step niece and her SO... they are great kids, and truth be told NOBODY cares about what they do in their private time.

36 years. That is longer than I have been alive, folks. They are loyal to one another. One stays home and takes care of the house and helps his partner cause the partner is legally blind and has severe COPD. The other works full time. My friends are wonderful people, and when the one that stays home was hospitalized for chest pain earlier this year, I was horrified to learn that his hospital stay/angiogram/and heart stenting that saved him was NOT covered. To me, these guys deserve at the very least coverage for their "spouses." Would these two make it "legal" if the chance arose? I don't know, I know they are happy, They love each other Dearly faithfully and honestly. Their relationship has lasted longer and through more adversity than most straight marriages I can think of. These people deserve more. Oh and in response to the poll, I have a cousin that is gay, and I can't say with all honestly that I am totally hetero. But that might be just me.

Lesbians: two cousins are out, one on each side of the family; and there is an aunt that most of us believe is, but she is not out.

Gay men: one second cousin.

Mind you, this is over an extended family of about 80 people.

Anyone who don't know that is removed from thier relatives!

When you say "most people are not affected by gay marriage" you're not being realistic. Evangelical right wingers are affected by it. It stresses them out.

And when he gets hurt by being made a scapegoat for society's ills, it makes me want to hurt a whole shitload of people in return.

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My cousin is openly lesbian, and my girlfriend of three and a half years is bisexual.

I love him so much, he's so funny and genuinely kind to everybody. He came out to the family in St. Louis a long time ago, but I hadn't seen him in years. So we get together a couple years ago and he's trying to figure out how to tell me, and I say "yeah, you're gay, so what". He just cracks up and we had the greatest time together. I wish he would come out to see me because I think he'd have such a good time in Oregon. He worries way too much about what other people think in St. Louis.

and it kills my parents but, I personally have no problem with it.

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One of them even with his partner adopted a kid, happy to say that his parents are very good to him as his brother and sister. His dad is a Philly psychiatrist I believe and I barely know them but they are very tolerant of their son.

We have a gay couple next door. They're really nice guys who watch our house when we're out of town, & their house is a showplace! If they wanted to get married, I'd send a bottle of champagne!

and possibly a cousin of my dad's -- never met him, but barely mentioned family rumor leads me to believe.....

also know of 3 other families that have more than one gay/lesbian child -- one family has 2 out of 5, another has 3 out of 6 and the third has 2 out of 3

If so, yeah, my son has a couple of those.

And they both came out in their forties.

Do you feel that a vote for John Kerry will make your gay relatives more gay or encourage more of your relatives to become gay? I'm asking because the right-wing seems to want us to believe that, with John Kerry as President, gays will become gayer and straight people will turn gay.

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Yeah I dont know much about her, she's like a secon I havent seen her in 10 years, she came out like 5 years ago. As for any close family members I dont know if anyone is Gay or not. There would be a mixed reaction, I have uncles and cousins that are super homophobic :mad:, and then there's people like me who just dont give a fuck.

And I have my suspicions about my uncle.

on my father's side, and their grandfather was gay.

And so far, it's still "legal," I think. Multnomah County.

Most people feel that gays and lesbians make up at least 6% of the population. If one also assumes something of a random distribution of that 6%, then the chances of a family of any size not having a gay or lesbian in it is hardly overwhelming. To take one example.

Say you have 20 people and each one has a 94% chance of being straight. Then the chance that all 20 are straight can be expressed by 0.94^20 which is 0.2901059 which is less than 30%. One should note that the early results seem to bear that out. Incidently, I didn't answer your poll so as not to skew the results given my critique of your question but in addition to be gay myself, I have a lesbian aunt and had a gay uncle.

Two (maybe three) of my cousins and my late brother.