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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
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Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
SalixIncendium said:
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 around puberty. I learned what LGBT+ and phone sex was all in one day. :D
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I meant my own anecdote. For a while if someone learned I was a lesbian (this was in the 2000’s) they would act like I was the first gay woman they’d ever met. Some of this was even in a college town.

Now people are more out, and it seems like nearly everyone knows somebody in everyday life. And I think this is a good thing. Not that peoples’ lives are defined by identity or anything, but just for the reason I said: it’s hard for society to other people when they’re concrete and real, not something “out there, somewhere”
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
Meow Mix said:
Now people are more out, and it seems like nearly everyone knows somebody in everyday life. And I think this is a good thing. Not that peoples’ lives are defined by identity or anything, but just for the reason I said: it’s hard for society to other people when they’re concrete and real, not something “out there, somewhere”
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^ This.

Anything that serves to humanize and normalize the "other" is valuable, and having it personalized, like (e.g.) having LGBTQ grandchildren, is even more so.
 
SalixIncendium

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
Jayhawker Soule said:
^ This.

Anything that serves to humanize and normalize the "other" is valuable, and having it personalized, like (e.g.) having LGBTQ grandchildren, is even more so.
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I still have another month (exactly to the due date) before I meet my grandchild, so I'm not sure if she's LBGT+ yet. ;)

Salix,
Excited expectant granddad.
 
Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
I suppose I had a (distant) nephew who/is was (not sure if he is still living). Married, had a daughter, but then severed relations with his wife. The girl, bright girl, went on to complete a Ph.D. in business administration in US. Last I heard was that he was on regular dialysis with failing kidneys in a free government hospital. Engineer, who was not able to have any savings in his life. A sad story. But we experience things in life. It is only a matter of percentages.
 
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Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
Meow Mix said:
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.
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My aunt who passed was lesbian. I have another aunt who is. My cousin fully transitioned near thirty years ago and no longer identifies with her biological sex. Of course I'm lesbian, and so is my best friend.
 
SalixIncendium

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
RayofLight said:
Mixed up the b and the g. Not that it matters both acronyms are ok but that's very chaotic and I like that.
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Yeah. It was a typo. If you look at my previous posts ITT, there in the correct order. I considered fixing it, but I decided to let you enjoy my chaos. ;)
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Meow Mix said:
I'm just curious how many people have LGBT+ friends, family, or anyone else they interact with on a regular basis.
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I knew a Doctor at a hospital I worked at who was an open transsexual. A very nice person.

A family member of mine has an affinity for being male.

A friend from Florida turned out to be gay and I never knew although I should of suspected as several of his friends were openly gay.

All of them I'm fond of and do like them.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
The most beautiful person i have ever known, beauty of the mind, although she was very pretty too, considered herself bi. She is sadly no longer with us, she died while i was pregnant with the twins. My eldest daughter is named after her.
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

Veteran Member
In regards to my real life family, we have a gay man in the family. He's actually a pretty great guy. Ambitious, funny, hard worker. Some of my family has been a little prone to treat him like the black sheep of the family, but really only very mildly so. I hope he kind of just laughs it off, and that it doesn't get to him.

Online, I associate with LGBT+ people on a regular basis.
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
Staff member
Premium Member
Shakeel said:
Because multiple people can't make the same choice?
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I'm witnessing what I have observed. Children are born into straight families and yet become gay. They become gay with fathers that hate gays. They become gay in churches that don't believe people can be gay. They just sometimes are gay, and they can't stop how they feel about the same sex. Their choices become: no sex, same sex, opposite sex; but this doesn't change their preference. Some get crushes on the same sex, not on the opposite sex. Its evidence to me. I'm not writing a book, just saying what I have observed.
 
SigurdReginson

SigurdReginson

Grēne Mann
Premium Member
My best friend is trans, another good friend of mine is bi, and i work and have friendships at work with plenty of folks who are gay, lesbian, trans, or various other colors of the LGBT rainbow. :D
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Meow Mix said:
I meant my own anecdote. For a while if someone learned I was a lesbian (this was in the 2000’s) they would act like I was the first gay woman they’d ever met. Some of this was even in a college town.

Now people are more out, and it seems like nearly everyone knows somebody in everyday life. And I think this is a good thing. Not that peoples’ lives are defined by identity or anything, but just for the reason I said: it’s hard for society to other people when they’re concrete and real, not something “out there, somewhere”
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When I was in high school (early to mid 90s), we had enough out LGBTQ people that some students were pushing for a Gay-Straight Alliance club, but at the same time, the fact that the principal (of our public school) vetoed the idea of a GSA wasn't seen as really unexpected.

Weirdly, in university, it seemed like there were fewer out LGBTQ people than there were in high school. In my class of just over 100 people, there was one out gay guy and that was it.
 
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