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Do you have LGBT+ people in your life?

Do you have LGBT+ friends/family/other in your life?

  • Yes

    Votes: 34 72.3%
  • No

    Votes: 10 21.3%
  • Yes, but not very close

    Votes: 3 6.4%

  • Total voters
    47

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
In the UK I have several gay friends. Here in France, not so many, only 3 gay guys i would call friends. Perhaps because I'm now rural rather than urban.

For gay read LBGT+, i could never get used to acronyms and acronyms that keep changing and expanding are a no, no.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.
My hairdresser is gay (quelle surprise - and at the age of 60 lives with his mother, so he's a walking stereotype), but that's about it among regular contacts.

Ooh wait, there is the partner of the daughter of a friend from rowing days, who has announced he is trans, i.e, he -> she. This after fathering said daughter's child. What a mess. :rolleyes:

And there was a gay chap at the rowing club, years ago. And there were some people at university who have come out as gay subsequently but who I am no longer in touch with.

But that's it. No one in the family, on either side and none of my current friends.
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.
In real life I used to have a close friend of mine who is gay, sadly we lost contact during my mental health crises due to reasons that are my own fault, but Sydney's a small place. Hopefully someday we'll bump into each other again and reunite, or perhaps I'll try re-establish contact through facebook, although I haven't used facebook in a very long time.
 

Brian2

Veteran Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.

My wife seem to pick up gay people and has a social life with a number of gay guys who know her and each other and at times and I am sometimes invited.
 

Gargovic Malkav

Well-Known Member
I know a few family members and people of the group home I used to live in who belong to that group.
Most of the group home were still closeted back then though.
And one of the family members who used to say she was bisexual is now an Islamic convert, so I can imagine she's left her taste for women behind and no longer identifies as bisexual.

Other than that, I don't have much of a social life, so I wouldn't say I interact with them on a regular basis.
But if RF is included, then fairly often I guess, as there's a large amount of LGBT+ people on here.
 

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.

In my country, I have a few bisexual friends, a few lesbian friends, one gay friend, and one asexual friend. If we include online friends (including close online friends), then that number increases to at least a dozen LGBT+ folks.

I don't know about family and relatives: most wouldn't mention it even if they were LGBT+, but I would say it's safe to assume most probably aren't because they're openly homophobic.
 
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SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.

The discussion of sexuality or gender rarely comes up in conversation with people I meet and eventually interact with on a regular basis, probably because I'm simply not interested it.

I've learned after having interacted with them for some time that a few of them are LGBT+, but for me, people are people, so it has no impact on my opinion of them. It's their personality, not their sexuality or gender, that makes me decide whether or not I want to interact with them on a regular basis.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.

I said 'no' but that's mostly because I'm retired, and live a relatively non-social life. My circle of friends is tiny. When I worked, there were a couple of people.
 

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
The discussion of sexuality or gender rarely comes up in conversation with people I meet and eventually interact with on a regular basis, probably because I'm simply not interested it.

I've learned after having interacted with them for some time that a few of them are LGBT+, but for me, people are people, so it has no impact on my opinion of them. It's their personality, not their sexuality or gender, that makes me decide whether or not I want to interact with them on a regular basis.

Oh absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply anything about why people were in each others’ lives; or whether being LGBT+ had any bearing on whether someone would be a friend or not.

I was just curious because when I was growing up, this was anecdotally a rare thing for a lot of people to know somebody. I think people tend to be more empathetic about certain issues if they know somebody personally (it’s not always related, but it seems to have an impact on some folks).

So I was just curious.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Not often, but past coworkers, past church people, a couple of neighbors. There were enough to convince me it was not a matter of choice, which mattered because I needed to know that.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
Oh absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply anything about why people were in each others’ lives; or whether being LGBT+ had any bearing on whether someone would be a friend or not.

I was just curious because when I was growing up, this was anecdotally a rare thing for a lot of people to know somebody. I think people tend to be more empathetic about certain issues if they know somebody personally (it’s not always related, but it seems to have an impact on some folks).

So I was just curious.

I don't think it was as anecdotally rare as you might think.

I don't think the LGBT+ population per capita has changed all that much. I think people were less inclined to admit to being LGBT+ (either to others or oneself), as it wasn't as openly accepted back then as it today.

I personally knew nothing about it until I received a rather curious phone call from a classmate around puberty. I learned what LGBT+ and phone sex was all in one day. :D
 
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