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Would it be possible to have more then one gay child within a single family?
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 1:01 AM GMT Quote I guess anything is possible. The real question is how often does this situation occur? Is there anyone else that has whitnessed this first hand?

momewrath Posts: 23	Feb 25, 2008 1:46 AM GMT Quote Happens all the time. Seen a show on logo once about gay siblings... one family had 5 siblings, all gay/lesbian. Identical twins tend to be gay if one of them is gay. I've known a few gay siblings, too. We're pretty sure one of my older half-sisters is a lesbian... Statistically, it's probably not the most common thing for more than one to be 100% gay... but it's not so rare that it's unheard of.
ActiveAndFit Posts: 2819	Feb 25, 2008 2:02 AM GMT Quote In all my years of being out, I have known many brothers and or sisters from the same family that are gay. I have also known a guy who had an identical twin brother who was not gay like he was. The twins however had an older brother that was. The gay twin was not as close to the straight married twin as he was the older non-twin brother.
farfle Posts: 78	Feb 25, 2008 2:02 AM GMT Quote Definitely. My brother is gay, and I can see it all over my family tree!
RunintheCity Posts: 1457	Feb 25, 2008 2:06 AM GMT Quote I have a gay sister.
vince_in_chic... Posts: 95	Feb 25, 2008 2:09 AM GMT Quote I have a gay brother, and a few gay friends with gay siblings.
dfrourke Posts: 607	Feb 25, 2008 2:11 AM GMT Quote ...I have a few gay friends...where the gay siblings far outnumber the straight... ...definitely possible... - David
SurrealLife Posts: 4403	Feb 25, 2008 2:12 AM GMT Quote Actually it happens quite frequently. One of my oldest gay friends who now lives in Vancouver, is one of 6 kids, 5 boys and 1 girl. Three of the boys are gay!
Timberoo Posts: 2819	Feb 25, 2008 2:12 AM GMT Quote Sure. I know a family of 12 kids - 6 boys, 6 girls with 2 of each gay.
njnick Posts: 15	Feb 25, 2008 2:19 AM GMT Quote I have 1 gay sister & 1 bi sister (5 of us total). A bunch of my friends have gay brothers or sisters.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 2:47 AM GMT Quote I'm one of 5 and both my brothers are gay. One came to me about it, the other is in denial but I'm sure of it.
RunintheCity Posts: 1457	Feb 25, 2008 2:56 AM GMT Quote I think there are far more gay people in the world than any study will ever get them all to admit....
Sporty_g Posts: 665	Feb 25, 2008 3:01 AM GMT Quote Of Course it is! Also depends on how tight your definition of "family" is. None of my 5 siblings are gay but I have uncles, aunts and cousins who are, on all sides of my family tree.
medfordguy Posts: 124	Feb 25, 2008 3:23 AM GMT Quote sure, my husband's older brother is gay, he even had a boyfriend with the same first name as me
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 3:23 AM GMT Quote I'm seeing a guy with an older brother who's gay
cacti Posts: 262	Feb 25, 2008 3:42 AM GMT Quote My one and only sibling(brother) is also gay. I don't know how common it is, but people always seem to find it interesting. The only bad thing about it is the one question we get disturbingly often... every guy with a creepy brother-on-brother fantasySo, uh... have you guys ever messed around??
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 4:28 AM GMT Quote cacti saidMy one and only sibling(brother) is also gay. I don't know how common it is, but people always seem to find it interesting. The only bad thing about it is the one question we get disturbingly often... every guy with a creepy brother-on-brother fantasySo, uh... have you guys ever messed around?? OK, that IS creepy.
Alexander89 Posts: 681	Feb 25, 2008 4:39 AM GMT Quote As far as I know out of 9 kids I am the only son of my biological mother who is gay. Then agai my three youngest siblings are too young to tell at this period of time. I did have gay and bi foster brothers in 1 or 2 of the families i was in but i didn't know about it until i was stripping next to him in the same club. I also experimented when i was 8 with 2 other foster brothers... It wasn't truly a sexual thing at the time but the idea wasn't mine to touch each others parts and stuff it was my older foster brother Charlie Garcia... I always liked my men older and exotic... I blame him for those preferances. hahaha
makeumyne Posts: 190	Feb 25, 2008 4:44 AM GMT Quote My big brother is straight. I'm gay. My younger sister is a lesbian.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 5:21 AM GMT Quote I have five sisters. My biggest hope is that none of them are gay.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 5:58 AM GMT Quote Yes, it can happen.. My mom is gay, and my sister is bi. It runs in the family.. haha.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 6:01 AM GMT Quote jprichva said[quote][cite]cacti said[/cite]My one and only sibling(brother) is also gay. I don't know how common it is, but people always seem to find it interesting. The only bad thing about it is the one question we get disturbingly often... every guy with a creepy brother-on-brother fantasySo, uh... have you guys ever messed around?? OK, that IS creepy.[/quote] that is VERY creepy!
Alexander89 Posts: 681	Feb 25, 2008 6:17 AM GMT Quote At least nobody ever asked you if you ever got to see your two moms go at it.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 6:41 AM GMT Quote I have an older brother that is for sure gay, and a younger brother that is getting more and more obvious day by day! So i wonder since we're all not straight, will this massive amount of presure of me having to continue our family name ever lift?
runner16 Posts: 121	Feb 25, 2008 7:09 AM GMT Quote My mom comes from a family of eight siblings. One boy and one girl is gay. I also have at least two gay cousins. Including people related to me by marriage, there are at least 8 gay people in my family!
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 7:38 AM GMT Quote Alexander89 said At least nobody ever asked you if you ever got to see your two moms go at it. haha actually i have.. and I HATE it
ActiveAndFit Posts: 2819	Feb 25, 2008 7:51 AM GMT Quote lilmaninsc saidYes, it can happen.. My mom is gay, and my sister is bi. It runs in the family.. haha. Thats cool to have a gay parent .. What happens when you come out? Do you get money under your pillow like with the tooth fairy? Is there a big coming out party? Or does your Mom just say .. Oh, ok ..
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 8:06 AM GMT Quote Lol.. i didn't have to tell her.. she said she's known for a while.. when I did tell her.. she just said, I know, and smile lol.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 8:09 AM GMT Quote I have a half brother and a half sister who are both gay. They're from my dad's first marriage. I also have a sister who's straight (but who has much better gaydar than I do, and that's saying a lot)... I don't know how often it happens... I have no research data that I can reference... but I do know several guys who have a gay sister or brother, as well as two friends of mine who are twin brothers and both gay...
ActiveAndFit Posts: 2819	Feb 25, 2008 8:13 AM GMT Quote lilmaninsc saidLol.. i didn't have to tell her.. she said she's known for a while.. when I did tell her.. she just said, I know, and smile lol. Ah, that was my third option. The notion of a "Gay-mitzvah" sounds cool anyway lol
Hidden/Deleted Member	Feb 25, 2008 8:14 AM GMT Quote ActiveAndFit said[quote][cite]lilmaninsc said[/cite]Lol.. i didn't have to tell her.. she said she's known for a while.. when I did tell her.. she just said, I know, and smile lol. Ah, that was my third option. The notion of a "Gay-mitzvah" is cool anyway lol[/quote] Lol yea, it does.
Freakyninjamo... Posts: 728	Feb 25, 2008 8:24 AM GMT Quote Both my sister and I are gay, and we are the only "kids" my parents had. My uncle is also gay on my fathers side.
gymguy1 Posts: 995	Feb 25, 2008 12:27 PM GMT Quote My sister is a lesbian.
Sedative Posts: 5407	Feb 25, 2008 12:27 PM GMT Quote I have 3 older sisters, a younger brother, and a younger sister. 3 older sisters are married, so definitely straight. My younger brother is straight as far as I can tell (I found pictures of naked women ONLY (CUE: EEW) in his porn stash). I really hope he is. LOL. If he turns out gay too, I don't know if my parents can take it. Continuing the family name is very important to filipinos. I'm counting on him to do it, Hehe. Our youngest... I dunno. I'm having weird vibes that she may be lesbian. Or at least bi. She grew up to two brothers, sigh. I hope it's just a tomboyish phase. Knowing how hard it is to be gay, I wouldn't wish gayness on any of them. Heh
HotCoach Posts: 65	Mar 06, 2008 12:43 AM GMT Quote Sure does. Have a friend with 6 kids. 1 gay, 1 lesbian. George, the dad, is one of the founers of P-Flag in Massachusetts. We should all have dads like Geogre and mothers like his wife, Alice.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 06, 2008 1:03 AM GMT Quote Of course it's possible. I come from a family with four kids. I'm a twin, my twin brother is gay, and my older brother is too. Only my sister is straight. And I tend to agree with both twins being gay, it happens a lot and has a biological background to why it happens. Totally possible and I'm living proof.
fitone Posts: 45	Mar 06, 2008 1:36 AM GMT Quote my partner's younger brother is gay...2 out of 3!
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 07, 2008 2:39 PM GMT Quote According to a recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the more older brothers a man has the more likely he is to be gay. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/26/ugay.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/26/ixnews.html
xanadude Posts: 147	Mar 07, 2008 2:56 PM GMT Quote I know of one family where the mother (the parents are divorce), one of the two sons & the daughter are gay. My friend & his brother are both gay -- and they get asked the "Have you had sex with your brother?" question all the time, but usually from straight people. Their response usually is, "NO! Have you had sex with your straight sister???"
XRuggerATX Posts: 2818	Mar 07, 2008 3:12 PM GMT Quote My cousin and his sister are gay. Their little sister proclaimed bisexuality when she was a teen, likely just to be as cool as her older siblings, but later she determined she was plain old straight. In other news, my uncle drinks a lot (even though my aunt is stunning at 50). ;-)
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 07, 2008 3:30 PM GMT Quote I've a got a gay brother, two gay cousins, and a brother in law far passed the questioning phase whose moved into the closeted phase. My older gay cousin thinks it's all linked to our beloved grandma(both maternal). The last time I visited my extended family there was rumour of two our female cousins being possible lesbians. Fortunatly, they're I'm on good terms with both, so time will tell. But yeah, suffice it to say, that it's not a matter of how many gays/bis/lesbians/transexuals your family has, but whose coming out next. I've always been attracted to gay twins, and a guy with a bi/straight/confused twin. Knowing that they could be both feeling some of the same emotions at any given time is encouraging. Not to mention twice the personality and points of view. But I wouldn't put too much faith in any 'studies' on how many people concider themselves gay. There's so much that goes into realizing your gay, experimenting, accepting, than the coming that make any study more far off than one of Bush's "WTF?" comments.
PHLmuscle8 Posts: 297	Mar 07, 2008 3:36 PM GMT Quote ask my gay brother.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 07, 2008 3:37 PM GMT Quote Aside from the three (yes THREE) pair of identical gay twins I've known, there is the matter of my half-brother - who has been with his partner over 35 years. Joey
jarhead5536 Posts: 729	Mar 07, 2008 3:51 PM GMT Quote I have two lesbian aunts, one gay uncle, and at least two gay cousins.
HndsmKansan Posts: 3129	Mar 07, 2008 4:04 PM GMT Quote I know of a couple of instances where 2 boys in the family were gay. Interestingly, in both cases the siblings aren't very close.. even though they are gay.
AbFab1 Posts: 82	Mar 07, 2008 4:06 PM GMT Quote PHLmuscle8 saidask my gay brother. ditto here -- at least two out of us 5 brothers are...
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 07, 2008 4:32 PM GMT Quote If one twin is gay, there's a 50% chance the other will be; I think there's a 30% chance when they are not identical. I have an older brother that is gay and a cousin on my mother's side that is lezbo, but my twin brother is not gay.
Gregg Posts: 162	Mar 07, 2008 5:17 PM GMT Quote My ex, his lesbian sister, and I shared the same house. Its possible
GwgTrunks Posts: 485	Mar 07, 2008 5:53 PM GMT Quote I know a family with five kids. Three of the boys are gay, two of them are twins. On of my friends brothers is also gay, out of a family of three kids. I'd imagine it's pretty common, really.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 07, 2008 6:24 PM GMT Quote my brother is gay.
Bear321 Posts: 237	Mar 09, 2008 3:35 AM GMT Quote VineyardHmo saidIf one twin is gay, there's a 50% chance the other will be; I think there's a 30% chance when they are not identical. I have an older brother that is gay and a cousin on my mother's side that is lezbo, but my twin brother is not gay. I am just now getting up off the floor. When you said twin brother I fell out of my chair. (figuratively of course) just to know there are two guys in the world that look like you. Mercy!! Oh, are you identical twins?? You didn't say identical or fraternal.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 09, 2008 3:40 AM GMT Quote My ex and his sister are both gay/lesbian and I used to hang out with a pair of gay identical twins.
Satyricon331 Posts: 318	Mar 09, 2008 4:13 AM GMT Quote My sister's a newly married lesbian!
jimboe1969 Posts: 31	Mar 09, 2008 4:17 AM GMT Quote Very possible. My roommate is gay and so is his younger brother. His first cousin, is gay and so is his oldest brother. So, yes, it is possible.
evilgemini Posts: 164	Mar 09, 2008 4:19 AM GMT Quote my sister is a lesbian with a wife. lovely, very happy couple. also my bf has a gay brother, and i have a very gay -- i mean alchoholic closet case uncle -- who is just SOOO unhappy and into his garden. i mean, his house is on the local "garden tour" fer crissakes... jesus H GAY christ...
JDB_REMIX Posts: 122	Mar 09, 2008 4:39 AM GMT Quote my sister gets playboy..... she "reads it for the articles"
DanLMT Posts: 5	Mar 19, 2008 2:45 AM GMT Quote yes, I and my brother both identify as gay. I believe I have a nephew (one of 3 offspring of my straight sister) that is gay also. their uncle on the other side of the family is a closeted 46 year old gay man. I have also met several Orlando families that have at least 2 openly gay identified children (including male and female offspring).....must be something in this Mickey Mouse town water.....
Hidden/Deleted Member	Mar 19, 2008 4:34 AM GMT Quote My brother is not gay but my boyfriends dad is. It wasn't all cakewalks and sunshine there though, his dad and bob are not very open about anything, they are very old school but that happens in northern michigan alot. LOL
Lazz Posts: 215	Mar 19, 2008 5:07 AM GMT Quote Wow. I learn something new everyday. There are so many persons with gay siblings. I am really wondering if there is actually a genetic basis for "gayness" or just transferable behaviour. Me stumbling on to a forum like this, is like a kid running around in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. I would really love to do a scientific study of this to see how prevalent it really is. Sadly, studies such has these don't get much funding so extensive research in this area is along way off. I guess one day someone will take on the challenge.
Global_Citize... Posts: 950	Apr 14, 2008 12:41 AM GMT Quote There was a documentary that aired on Logo about a family of five children (three brothers and two sisters), each one of them is gay.
joescorpio197... Posts: 833	Apr 14, 2008 1:03 AM GMT Quote Well, I've met a set of identical twins that are gay. I have two friends that are brothers, who are both gay. I also have a guy friend who's sister is a lesbian, and also know a gay guy who's father is also gay. I think I've got all my bases covered there.
RITS067 Posts: 48	Sep 19, 2008 10:19 AM GMT Quote I am a fraternal twin.. I am gay and brother is not..... But I have a friend who he and his brother are both gay.. they are 3 years apart. and the only 2 kids in the family
Pattison Posts: 1993	Sep 19, 2008 10:32 AM GMT Quote Absolutely yes!
redheadguy Posts: 2232	Sep 19, 2008 10:42 AM GMT Quote I have a closetted gay brother. I wish he would come out. His life would be so much happier for himself and his girlfriend could finally stop wondering why he prefers to go to sleep rather than have sex with her.
original714 Posts: 289	Sep 19, 2008 11:07 AM GMT Quote This a great forum thread! I have an older sibling who is straight, then there is little old me, a younger sister and younger brother who i think are both straight. Does being a middle child throw off the theory since the youngest boy is def. straight? Also, the Logo documentary is available on netflix. they have a really interesting selection of gay documentaries that I have learned a lot from.
Hidden/Deleted Member	Sep 19, 2008 10:08 PM GMT Quote One of the bar tenders at the bar I hang out at is gay, his twin sister is a lesbian and they're great together.
GuyNextDoorOh... Posts: 215	Sep 19, 2008 10:13 PM GMT Quote One of my friends has 3 siblings - 2 other guys and a girl - they are all gay except one of the brothers. So 3 out of 4....I think it's fairly common.
chungo44 Posts: 543	Sep 19, 2008 10:16 PM GMT Quote my friend is gay and his twin brother came out to him last week
EricLA Posts: 1140	Sep 19, 2008 10:35 PM GMT Quote I know of many gay sibling situations.
CuriousJockAZ Posts: 2291	Sep 19, 2008 10:53 PM GMT Quote I know two sets of gay twins, and two other sets of gay brother (one of them has a lesbian sister)
Crimthann Posts: 779	Sep 19, 2008 11:07 PM GMT Quote well, both my brother and sister are straight, but I have an uncle that's, well, lets just say hes a kinky bastard and more than just Bi.
Jsttennis77 Posts: 838	Sep 19, 2008 11:12 PM GMT Quote N_E_W_B_I_E saidI guess anything is possible. The real question is how often does this situation occur? Is there anyone else that has whitnessed this first hand? Don't know how often it occurs but my older bro is also gay. I want to say the classic line... "my poor parents" but that isn't exactly true. Their marriage hasn't exactly been the best definition of the alleged God approved union between a man and a woman nor has their generation exactly proven that said union holds the key to Utopia. My parents clearly understand being gay does not make it impossible to make a baby or babies so being grandparents isn't off the table either. So I refuse to say, "My poor parents" If anything they have a leg up on all their friends when they come crying to them about their grown adult kids latest secret scandal. My parents can laugh and privately think.. Fuck that, thats cookies and cream you fucking amateurs LOL.
Azstreaker Posts: 623	Sep 19, 2008 11:26 PM GMT Quote jsttennis77 said N_E_W_B_I_E saidI guess anything is possible. The real question is how often does this situation occur? Is there anyone else that has whitnessed this first hand? Don't know how often it occurs but my older bro is also gay. I want to say the classic line... "my poor parents" but that isn't exactly true. Their marriage hasn't exactly been the best definition of the alleged God approved union between a man and a woman nor has their generation exactly proven that said union holds the key to Utopia. My parents clearly understand being gay does not make it impossible to make a baby or babies so being grandparents isn't off the table either. So I refuse to say, "My poor parents" If anything they have a leg up on all their friends when they come crying to them about their grown adult kids latest secret scandal. My parents can laugh and privately think.. Fuck that, thats cookies and cream you fucking amateurs LOL. LOL...love it.... me and my bro are homos!
sexysamer Posts: 1785	Sep 19, 2008 11:28 PM GMT Quote My brother was gay... then he married and have kids. He said he is 100% straight. Ya right...
Hidden/Deleted Member	Sep 20, 2008 4:11 AM GMT Quote Definitely. I dated a guy who had 3 brothers. One came out after we broke up so 2 of 4 are gay. I have 4 siblings, all straight. Not sure what that means. Used to be nature or nurture, genetic or how you were raised. I tend to think it is a result of the multiple chemical processes that occur in utero that determine gender aside from genetics and xy or xx. It seems so random and as the above responses show some families have many gay offspring and some have one or none. Personally, I don't care what "made" me gay. I am so I am. Happy to be so.
mickeytopogig... Posts: 1022	Sep 20, 2008 4:20 AM GMT Quote I'm happy you're gay too.
jakun Posts: 1	Sep 20, 2008 4:56 AM GMT Quote I lived in Malaysia for 13 years, where I knew three sets of gay identical twins; countless cases of gay guys with gay siblings and one case of a family with four siblings (three girls and one guy) where all four are gay. I also used to know an English guy who had three gay brothers and two lesbian sisters.
Sean_85 Posts: 1018	Sep 20, 2008 5:24 AM GMT Quote I'm the only gay person in my entire family that we know off but there are two uncles one on my dads side in Ireland very introverted and never dated women always had male gypsys at the house... The other in Scotland but he married but you could tell its becuase what was expceted back in the day... I'm the only gay in the village whos owning up to it so far but i'm on to my cousion Phillip.
hockeytiger Posts: 26	Oct 10, 2008 12:12 AM GMT Quote My younger brother is gay. I'm bi. My two youngest brothers are straight.
metropolitan Posts: 557	Oct 10, 2008 12:50 AM GMT Quote So, everyone is gay now? thank god the world is turning gay
Arcangel7769 Posts: 14	Oct 10, 2008 1:20 AM GMT Quote My younger brother is gay. I didn't know and almost had a heart attack when someone tapped me on the shoulder at my favorite bar and asked me if I was gonna buy him a drink or not. I turned around and saw my brother standing there!!! Bad news is, it turns out he's also a jerk. He cheated on his boyfriend of 2 months then kicked him out. I came to the rescue and we wound up together for 5 years! My brother has hated me ever since. ...um... ...what was the question again? ...oh yeah! I 'member now! The answer is yes.
Red_Vespa Posts: 1348	Oct 10, 2008 1:24 AM GMT Quote Yep, my gay ex-BF has a lesbian sister.
Mycro Posts: 21	Oct 10, 2008 6:11 PM GMT Quote My brother isn't gay, but my dad, uncle, and great uncle are. I think it runs in the family a little. But my ex had a sister who was gay.
XRuggerATX Posts: 2818	Oct 10, 2008 6:18 PM GMT Quote N_E_W_B_I_E saidI guess anything is possible. The real question is how often does this situation occur? Is there anyone else that has whitnessed this first hand? My cousin is gay and his sister is lesbian. Interesting side story: They also had a baby sister. When she was around 14 she decided she was gay, then bisexual. Finally, after a couple more years, she couldn't deny her sexuality any longer and came out as straight. Apparently she was disappointed that she wasn't as interesting and cool as her two older gay siblings.
Ducky44 Posts: 879	Oct 10, 2008 6:44 PM GMT Quote My uncle was gay. Uncle Rico (Frederico) very handsome man. I also know three brothers all are gay!
norsetraveler Posts: 2	Oct 11, 2008 5:55 PM GMT Quote I have several gay uncles ... on both father's and mother's side. I only have sisters and I think they are not lesbian.
Jacob_dane Posts: 22	Oct 11, 2008 6:01 PM GMT Quote It definitely happens. My ex's sister is a lesbian and my sister jsut came out to me about being at least bisexual.... so it happens more often than we think. o.O

mcf74 Posts: 6	Oct 11, 2008 6:03 PM GMT Quote My older brother, who is no longer with us God rest his soul, was gay. I have an older sister too, but she's straight. I agree that this likely happens quite a bit.

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