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Hello everyone.

As I'm sure you've guessed, this thread is about a simple question that I've always wondered about....

Are there multiple homosexual or bi-sexual person(s) in your immediate family?


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As for me, yes. Myself and my 2 older siblings are all homosexual.... although, I'd just recently found out that one of them was not actually homosexual, but bi-sexual instead.

I thought it was sort of a joke by saying that my mom had broken eggs. Heh, it came across as me being insensitive although that wasn't my intention.

Why do I ask? Well, last year I found some video on Youtube about "I have 2 gay children" and said to myself: "Self, why did this woman get an entire 60minutes devoted to her because she had TWO gay children? My mom had THREE and we also think that my youngest sister has some tendancies as well." Weird, because she treated it like a "oh poor me, I don't have any breeders" situation and as though it was some amazingly traumatizing situation having two alternate-lifestyle children. *sigh*

ANYHOW.... what's your story?

On my moms side of the family, her sisters(2) are both lesbians and her cousin is gay.

On my dads side of the family his sister is a lesbian.


Those are the only gay people I know of in my family. Don't have any brothers or sisters.

They wish.

Four kids here - 3 of us gay, an Aunt who I'd bet my left nut is a dyke and a couple of funny bachelor uncles.

I don't want to hear the "you're young" crap, because we all know that has nothing to do with that. All the guys I've ever been with have been chovanistic, cocky, and sex-obsessed. They use me, and then go back to their old girlfriends. I'm tired of following society's rules on relationship seeking: act coy, act mysterious, be nonchalant, always seem disinterested, never act clingy. They get me very far with guys, but I'm tired of making a facade of my life. I am who I am, and I shouldn't have to change my entire being just for a guy who won't give up sex for me. It's exhausting. I have only met two guys in my entire life that were just plain great; funny, easygoing, and respectful. But they were both and still are taken. It makes me feel like I have no chance, RH202 and by the time I get to college where "everything is supposed to get better" all the guys that are just so easygoing and happy will already be taken early on by girls that always look good without makeup, are awesome at sports, and can speak french. All I can offer is nostalgia, a talent at drawing, and hope. I just feel so knocked over. I feel like the girl from "He's Just Not That Into You". Everything I do makes me fall deeper and deeper out of attraction, unless I censor myself and become the sexy girl I never wanted to be. Give me a guy and I can make him fall for me, but I hate doing it that way. I just want to be myself, to laugh over coffee and watch birds fly, and still have someone in love with me. 640-721 I think there are two kinds of girls: the girls who can look good without makeup, and the girls that are equally hot, after hours in front of a mirror. I fall into the latter. But the type of guy I fall for, the happy, easygoing, insightful guy always falls for the naturaly gorgeuos girl who doesn't have to try to be attractive. I can't help that I worry about everything and analyze even more. It's my nature, and I can't change it as much as I wish I could. The very fact I want to change myself for a guy shows that I'm not that naturally beautiful, carefree girl. It's like he's Taylor Hanson, and I'm Drew Barrymore. And she's Lauren Conrad. TT0-201 I like who I am. I'm smart, hopeful, attractive, talented. But I think too much. I always dream of how things might be. I know this is terribly long, but I have no one to talk to about this. I used to talkt to my Mom about these things, but she died. So yeah.

Thankyou so much for any insight....and please don't be mean, I am very vulnurable..... Love much & God bless.

My family did not have a gay except me, nd my family do not know if I was gay

Y E S !!!

Great Aunt, uncle, and 2 cousins...all on my father's side of the family.

So far, I am the only one in my immediate family. Only other one I know about is my paternal great uncle's son.

Two of my dad's cousins are gay. The two gays are brother and sister. There is rumored homosexuality as well further up in the family tree. All (known) gays are on my father's side.

Only one in my entire family tree that I know about, someone must be hiding it well.

Melos saidOnly one in my entire family tree that I know about, someone must be hiding it well.

My Aunt is on my Mom's side. I had a buddy who had another brother who was, then his younger brother started playing around with guys too. 3 boys, 2 gay for a few seconds one was bi. But he just liked getting head when he was drunk. I guess being around gay guys all the time made him open.

Only my one cousin lives the lifestyle; the rest, including myself, are closeted.

I have 2 gay uncles and a gay aunt and some gay cousins, there are a lot of gays in my family and my dad make a comment that makes me not want to tell him

If we work on a 1/10 incidence for homosexuality, a cluster in a family may just be that.

Besides me, I have a gay cousin on my mom's side of the family. Not a lot of gays, however, I suspect another cousin of mine is.

As far as I know, I'm the only one. And I have a BIG family. I haven't really suspected that anyone else is gay either....

I guess I'm special!

that I know of.. no one in my family is gay but I have my suspects.

Nobody in my family is gay, as far as I know. No brother, sister, cousin, uncle .....no one. My late father cant hardly take his eyes on a beautiful girl. My younger brother who is married with 2 kids , sometimes make a strange comment about some guy with good body, but nothing more than that. One of my nephew , show some girlish tendency when his was a kid, but he grow up to be masculine, join an army cadet and now work at a masculine environment oil rigs.

But that is good news. It not easy to be gay in my conservative society. At least they dont have to go thru what I go thru.

O wait, I forgot about my 10 year old nephew. I'm sure he's just being a kid, but he has potential. His favorite toy used to be my sister's make-up brush that he would carry around and rub against his face saying "My brush, my brush". He also tended to cry around loud noises (and still does). When on a hike he didn't want to get off the concrete path and on to the real dirt path because he didn't want to get dirty. He just seems a tad too feminine, but he can still grow out of it.

If it was publicly made, within the family, that if there's a bi/homosexual within my family, then that person would be sent to therapy to "fix" their problem, be jailed in the house, etc.


When I was still in middle school, my family made out gay people to be pretty awful people. They would say rude and unnecessary things in portuguese as we passed by them. It's pretty much why I only accepted this (my sexuality) in HS, but only acted on being with other men in college... away from the parentals.

My 2 aunts on my mothers side and of course me =)
I've always wonder what it would be like to have a gay brother haha
mine is totally straight!

My only sister and I are homo.

My mom's youngest brother was gay. One of her first cousin's was/is gay (very closeted, yet very obvious) and started his own religious cult in Pittsburgh.(No joke.) He showed up one summer at our farm with all these women and cute teen boys dressed in all white. All of them obeyed his every command. WEIRD. My mother was visibly shaken by how he interacted with the male teens.

I have one immediate cousin I know is a lesbian (also mother's side of the family.)

I have 2 cousins on my father's side that I STRONGLY suspect. (They are men in their mid to late 30s, never had a girlfriend, etc.) There are a couple of gays in their mother's family.

Bi here. Lesbian older sister, bi cousin, gay cousin, gay second cousin (who passed to AIDS), bi uncle (who drowned), and I think that's it... although I could be mistaken (I'm exhausted today already).

I have two friends that are siblings. There are 6 kids; 5 gay, one bi.

I also have a friend that I grew up with that is one of four boys, and he is the only straight one (although there is a bi-curious story from when we were teenagers... not involving me).

Gay seems to run in my family as well. My great uncle, my uncle, my father, and me are gay. No cousins yet, but there are a handful still under ten so we'll see what happens when they get older.

On one side of the family I have a lesbian cousin. On the other I have a bisexual (male) cousin.

And me... well I'm all gay! :p

I have a gay uncle on my Mother's side. Also, everyone swore that my first cousin was going to turn out Lesbian when we were kids. Her and I were joined at the hip when we were children and she'd be right there getting dirty, building forts, and playing football in the street. They were wrong. She just got married last month to her longtime bf despite still being as butch as a woman can be.

I have several gay and lesbian relatives of all ages.
Only a few of us are actually out. ( Mostly the younger ones )
I recently found out that my cousin is transgender.
She's having a rough time. While I'm not trans
I do have friends who are. So I'm trying to reach out
and help her as much as I can.

It's interesting to see that many of you seem to have several lesbians in your family, especially since at least on a neuroanatomical (primarily in the hypothalamus) and neurodevelopmental level homosexual men and homosexual women appear to be very different.

I think I'm the only one if my family, which is surprising because both my parents come from large families (4 and 5 siblings each, almost all of whom have had multiple children). I suppose somebody is just hiding it well...

i have 2 other gay cousins on my dad's side (my dad's side sure loves this, LOL, they're highly chauvinistic) that i know of.

i know there's at least ONE on my mom's side of the family, but, in classic Filipino denial, no one will own up to it/admit it, LOL

I'm the only gay in the family!

Besides me, on my mother's side:

A first cousin (I have 20 cousins on my mother's side, many of whom are in the mid-teens, so it could be more...)

Two uncles (my mother had 8 siblings)

A great uncle that we suspect was gay; a great aunt who has been in a "homo-social" relationship since her husband died, and may be gay

A third cousin who is out.

On my father's side:

A great uncle - but my grandfather was adopted, so we don't know about his wing of the family.

A first cousin.

An ex-uncle, who is actually my God Father. He is not hereditarily related to me. He married then divorced my cousin and now has a relationship with a man. This happened in the seventies/eighties and honestly not too many bad things were said about him, but people would be nervous about how to act around him....just stupid stuff like that.

Considering I have tons of Aunts, Uncles, and cousins.....I guess it really doesn't run much in either family....red hair is pretty rare too so...

I am the only one I know of.

But I have a secretive bunch of assholes for a family. So who really knows.

OCN8 saidI am the only one I know of.

But I have a secretive bunch of assholes for a family. So who really knows.

Words right out of my mouth.

My late uncle was gay, never came out of the closet and was unfortunately never able to share his private life with his family.

I've never made it a point to come out to the majority of my family because they are viciously homophobic (with the exception of a couple of sane cousins). Most know though, and talk smack behind my back because of it and think I don't notice.

my uncle is gay...my cousin is gay and well...I'm gay. and my little sister has "lipstick lesbian" tendencies.

Me, baby bro, and one cousin are homo, we have a lot on the bi now, maybe gay later plan in the cousin dept. Older gen we don't know so much. Tho we have more than a few confirmed batchelors and spinsters

I had an uncle who died when I was pre-school. In pictures he looked really cool; motorcycle; leather jacket; very James Dean. The family doesn't discuss it much, but apparantly he was gay. I wish he were alive today so we could be friends.

Gay aunt on my dad's side.

I question my mother, father, and brother's sexuality quite often.

The women who gave birth to me, also gave birth to 3 other males who are either a breeding bisexual, and two gays. One in the closet, and the other an out there bitch flamer, and the only daughter, who is a wedded breeder; looks a lot like Chastity Bono, after the alterations

"The women who gave birth to me"

I knew it! I just knew it! You were assembled from parts produced from multiple women! I knew it I knew it I knew it!

my twin is bi sexual my lil 19 y/o brother is gay my uncle on my moms side is gay and 1 aunt on my moms side are lez and 2 aunts on my dads side are lez too haha one big happy family

As far as i know I'm the only homo in my family. But my mom and dad's side are not receptive to it at all, so if there are any other gay people, then they probably are closeted. I'm talking Jerry Falwell type people.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUT, I have a lesbian step-sister. She's insane though, so I stay the hell away from her'

There isn't enough room in my family for another homo. I'd feel very put upon to have to share my specialness.

No other gays in my family. However, I had a friend who had a much older gay uncle (mom's brother). Whenever my friend would go out to the gay bars, his mother would say "don't forget to take your uncle with you." He hated having his uncle tagging along. I always thought it was quite strange.

I have a gay uncle, and a gay brother.

well lets see since 1900 my moms's side of the family must have 18 unmarried members so either they are they type of irish who never get married (and there are plenty of those) or there are fags under every rock lol Currently I have 8 unmarried cousins all over 40..its so weird.I think that a Gay gene will be proven someday 4 sure.So many of my gay friends have gay siblings and family.

Of what I know of; one paternal aunt, one paternal cousin and one brother. I have a big family. I'm sure there are others but closeted.

Four out of sixteen from my generation (me and three cousins).

I think it's me and then my mom's sister who's a lesbian. I think one of my cousins is but he's married... so he's obviously pretending to be straight.

Twin brother (fraternal, not identical) is also. Both late bloomers too!

Besides me, my sister is a lesbian. I have one cousin that is gay. A cousin that dabbled in bisexuality but is now straight (as far as I know)....and another cousin that is a lesbian. All on my mothers side. Im sure there are some on my fathers side but that side of the family is very religious, so im sure if there are any they are hiding it.

As far as my immediate family - I am the token - however I have many cousins on my dad's side so who knows. I do know my mom has a first cousin who is gay.

I have one gay cousin and one gay second cousin... there have also been rumors about my older brother...

I'z the only one ::sigh:: lol at least that i know of. haha

I'm the youngest of four, the only gay one. I don't know of any official gay members of my extended family, though I did have a great uncle who was a priest...

Uncle and Great Aunt on Mom's side... and me

Nope. Honestly, I think i am the first one in my entire family line that is gay. I wonder why God chose me to be gay and not anyone in my entire family line....

AggieBoy saidI wonder why God chose me to be gay and not anyone in my entire family line....

Some families can only support so much fabulousness AggieBoy. Embrace your specialness!

i think im the only one. im a twin, my bro is straight tho...


is there always a gay twin? i swear every pair i know has a gay one!

I have a couple of cousins who are gay, my sister is bi and my mom is a les.

On my dad's side, a deceased male cousin and a living female cousin.

I have done some unscientific surveys over the years and was always intrigued that in families I know with multiple sons, the youngest male is always gay.

So as the oldest of two children, I wondered why it was that I turned out this way. Then when I was about 11 or 12, my mom dropped a bombshell. She told me before I was born, she had been pregnant with a boy but lost the baby due to miscarriage after a car accident. So I am actually her second son.

I guess its comforting in a way to know that it runs in the family.. Kinda like you're not the odd one out..

An uncle and two second cousins are sisters in the Lord.

Even though my only brother identifies as straight now, he had a pretty long and colorful period of experimentation when he was in college and in the Navy..

yeesss!!!! we call my mum the homo machine!!! she has sucessfully produced one gay and one lesbian...and we'r the only 2 kids she has! it also runs in my grandads family, two of his brothers, his uncle and his nephew, all day, and his brothers prodeced a grnad total of 2 lesbians between them!
gay family success!

drypin said

AggieBoy saidI wonder why God chose me to be gay and not anyone in my entire family line....

Some families can only support so much fabulousness AggieBoy. Embrace your specialness!

AWW thanks a lot. that put a smile on my face!

My Mom's Uncle was gay. Sadly he was the victim of a hate crime too. I don't think there are any other gays in the family.

In my family there's me and my brother, my brother doesn't know i know and we don't get along, I'm closeted still. And one of my cousins might be one on my moms side, and I know one my moms cousin has to be a lesbian. On my dads side I think one of my guy cousins has to be gay but I don't know.

My youngest brother is most likely gay since I found some gay porn on the home computer that I didnt' put there...but there was also some straight porn as well. He's only in high school so I haven't said anything to anyone about it in our family. My cousin on Dad's side is also under homo-suspicion. I came out to my parents and immediate family about a year ago so they are still needing to adjust to that. I bet once they are more accustomed to it some other people will come out of the closet.

Being straight runs in my family...
lol

Anyway: My grandfather's older brother and sister "never married", for some reason. Both died in 1981, and I never had the guts back then to ask any questions.

Oh man, I am so very jealous of all of you. I am the only gay one in my whole family that I know of even though I have a lot of relatives. Maybe it's a cultural thing since mine's is pretty homophobic.

Your families must be so supportive. What's it like having a gay sibling? Can't even imagine talking about boys with my brothers

I don't have any gay siblings bit I do have gay relatives and from my experiences it's heaven having a supportive family who treats you as you want to be treated.

I have a gay older sister. She stayed away from my family when I was growing up. So I didn't have too much contact with her other than some summers or really maybe only a funeral or something like that.

I'm the youngest of 10 kids in my family so when I told my parents I was gay, it actually helped strengthen their relationship with my sister. And they went out of their way to travel all the way out to California to visit my sister and her girlfriend. I think it made a world of difference to my sister.

I have a gay twin and a gay aunt on my mothers side.

Maternal side -- one of my 26 cousins [also male]; the oldest sons of one male and one female cousin [i.e. my first cousins-once removed]

Paternal side -- one male cousin of 3; a son of one of the others

No lesbians I know of, altho my sister tried it with a girlfriend in high school.

As far as I know my entire family is closeted. I have to figure someone besides me is gay but I'm taking the lead. Youngest of 5 boys, I fit the profile.

my mom's brother was bi-sexual. He was married at one time and had a daughter. There are a lot of pics with other men in our family albums. He had a girlfriend when he died of AIDS in 1987.

lol You wouldn't need gaydar to know summthin's up in my family. Mom was 10th of 15 kids (no shit)(big farm family), 10 female/5 male. Major breeders themselves and live for f'in ever. I have (had) 75 cousins and off the top of my head almost or easily 25% of the female cousins are lesbian which blows the lid off the traditional stats. I'm the youngest of 4 boys and gay, youngest cousin too and a couple older male cousins are out (drag queen types) (no kidding) and about since 1/2 the family went born again we're not welcome and the rest if any firmly in the closet. No skin off my teeth because I don't want in. The Aunts were always really sweet and cool. The Uncles either blood or marriage were cold and evasive. Takes a cold hearted woman to shut out her son. My mom believed what she wanted to believe. Parental denial. Since those of moms family who I knew or heard about goes back to and before 1900 there were a lot of tumultuous marriages and a lot of "cheating" and such whispered about. Dad died when I was 21 and my male cousins from his side of the family were there for the funeral. All 10 yrs.+ older than I. Easily 2 of the 9 were gay and pretty hot as I remember. The "hot" skipped my side of the family lol One nephew and he's gay. End of the family genes. Poor Darwinian fitness on my part.

I'm the only gay one out of 40+ cousins (that I know of). My Mom's second cousin is gay, but noone in my immediate family. Could definitely change as some of them get older though.

I'm the only gay one out of my entire family: immediate and extended (that I know of)

That I know of, it's only me and another cousin from my father's side (thought we are not supposed to know ). I also have a confirmed bachelor uncle on my mother's side but I am not sure of him.

But, my extended family is SO big my bet is that there are others.

I am gay and my twin sister is a lesbian/bi. My youngest sister is having a relationship with another girl now and my elder brother is single forever and not looking.

I have 4 siblings, oh...

I wish I had gay relatives.

My grandfather's uncle never married, was fastidious, and lived with his sister his entire life. But he died before I was born and there is no confirmation that he was gay.

I have a 4 year-old nephew who is really picky about his clothes and is the youngest of three sons. Everyone jokes that he is gay, but who know/cares.

That's it. My family is totally cool with the gay thing, but I would love to have a gay relative who is near my age. oh well.

Yup. All first born sons for some reason from my dad's side of the family.

GaFuzz saidYup. All first born sons for some reason from my dad's side of the family.

That's actually pretty interesting....


I've read in so many places about random geneology of homosexuality (not that I believe it works like that, since it seems to be random) and that would lend credence to some of their theories.

Heh, but it's still way too random in all the other cases.... I don't think they'll ever figure this thing out.

I have one gay first cousin on my dad's side.

I have 2 nephews (another one passed away a few years ago) that are gay. They were slow to tell me and I never understood that.

I am the only fag in the village.

That I know of... I have three gay cousins on my Dad's side and none on my mom's side. There might be more but of course, they might have issues coming out. The three cousins of mine, had a small backlash when they came out. I noticed and kinda dont want to completely come out to my fam...even though... duh! I'm sure they always have known just dont want to accept it.

My elder sister is as well. My mum knows about her, because she's quite butch-ish, but not about me. And since this is a rather conservative Asian family we're talking about, every so often, she tells me not to go clubbing and takes drugs, etc or I might wind up on the wrong path and end up like her..... So I don't know how I'm ever gonna get the courage to tell her, because it would seriously break her heart/kill her, I think.
And of course, I feel the pressure of getting her a grandchild too... lol

I had thought I was the only one (no siblings) but recently heard rumor of a great uncle on my dad's side who was. I also suspect two cousins of being but my family isnt conducive to coming out. Bad enough I have to hear slams to gays/lesbians can't imagine being out around that its hard enough now.

~rhys

Rampant in my family... Cousins, uncles, great uncles, you name it.

Well. I am the seventh son of seven kids. Yup...all boys. My Mom is a Saint.
With the statistics, there should be more than just me, however no one else came out. I always thought my Dad was Gay, but thats another story. One of my Brothers said to me that he thought about it but never found anyone attractive enough.
I think it was the wrong side of the coin that he was looking at. I dont think anyone would have found him attractive enough.

It seems to with my female cousins. The girl that used to babysit me, my cousing Sandra, is openly lesbian (and to think I was the ring bearer at her first wedding - there have been three to men), and as I think back, I had a much older cousing that showed up at a family reunion with a woman who was euphemistically referred to as her "friend" with knowing nods. These were the New York City cousins so they were thought to be rather odd to begin with...

On my Mom's side have one confirmed first cousin who is gay, and I strongly suspect his older brother. My mom also has a cousin who is gay.

On my Dad's side, I have a suspicion my grandfather might have been gay as he had a male companion/caregiver around after my grandmother died. I also have a suspicion a couple of my cousins on my Dad's side are gay. Always thought one cousin was a dyke; but, she got married, so guess I was wrong.

I am the only one in my own family.

I only have one sibling, and she's a lesbian.
I have a first cousin on my Dad's side who says she's bisexual.
That's it!

My younger sister is lesbian, but my two older brothers are both straight.

That I know, myself and a third degree gay cousin
But I suspect of that I have a lesbian cousin

Nope. I'm the only one.


... that I know of

1 on 5 kids, including twins but I am the only pink sheep!!

I don't believe its genetic, otherwise there must be a patten?

I am gay, none of my siblings are though (2brothers and a baby sister)

Although, I do have a cousin on my dad's side who is gay (closeted though, lives in Mexico, and it is hard to come out out there) and some suspects on my dad's side, but no one talks about them. On my mom's I know a aunt and 2 uncles who are All closeted though...

I think I am the only one to ever come out! HAHAHAH

Pattison saidI am the only fag in the village.

haha me too and we've got a pretty big village here so someone must be hidin something. With many members of the family religious (LDS) they dont quite know how to cope and say that I'm "challenged" but I prefer to call it gay! haha. wtf is that?

my dads brother is gay and him and I share the same birthday so I tell him all the time I was destined to be gay...lol and my moms uncle is gay

captproton said

I have done some unscientific surveys over the years and was always intrigued that in families I know with multiple sons, the youngest male is always gay.

I'm the baby boy, and both my uncles are baby boys... and all of us are mama boys..

pokerp said 1 on 5 kids, including twins but I am the only pink sheep!!

I don't believe its genetic, otherwise there must be a patten?

If there is in fact a genetic component, it is most likely dependent on the presence of specific alleles (flavors, if you will) of several genes. This is why even in a family, the incidence of homosexuality can be really low.

For instance, assume it's dependent on 3 genes, named Ice Cream, Chewing-gum and Sodapop. You may inherit the (Vanilla, Mint and Coke) alleles. Your siblings may all inherit different combinations, such as (Vanilla, Orange, Dr. Pepper) or (Chocolate, Cinnamon, Coke) etc, from your parents. BUT, if only (Vanilla, Mint and Coke) causes one to be gay, then there would be a slim chance of them inheriting the same combination.

(EDIT: Of course, you have to keep in mind that you have two copies of each gene, one from each parent, so you would actually have six, rather than three copies, and if there is codominance or incomplete dominance betwen any alleles at one or more than one of those loci, you get a lotttt of potential combinations. This is why in a family where the frequency of the right alleles is low, you may not see many gay offspring, but a family which has higher frequencies of just the right alleles may be choc full of gays.)

More than likely the presence of more genes than this is required as well as prenatal environmental factors. For instance, mothers who are stressed out during pregnancy seem to release stress hormones which interfere with the testosterone-dependent sexual differentiation of the fetus (study done in rats back in the 70's I believe, maybe earlier) and even in humans the Dresden studies suggested that women stressed living during WWII had higher rates of homosexual sons.

Do we know if this is fact? No, but it certainly seems convincing.

You can also throw in other factors like gene interactions, parental imprinting (switching on and off of genes), etc. an it becomes quite a mess trying to figure out what is going on!

I'm the ONLY one

Yep. Dad is pretty convinced the genetic part came from his side.

He had a gay cousin, and a gay... uncle I think it was. One committed suicide because of it, and one was murdered partly because of it.

My brother was. Several Uncles on both sides of the family were. Two 17 yr old sons of two of my cousins are.
Cheers,
Keith

I'm the only one in my family that I know of... though my cousin might be. He is so much against anything considered 'not normal' that I have wondered if he was hiding something.

Jboegz saidI'm the only one in my family that I know of... though my cousin might be. He is so much against anything considered 'not normal' that I have wondered if he was hiding something.

... as you continue to hide your smile. fail, boogie.

My uncle is gay on one side and I suspect a great uncle on the other side of the family that passed away was gay as well.

I know of several families that have multiple members who are gay. I absolutely believe homosexuality is genetic. The only environmental factor that I had that someone could possibly say is a contributor to my homosexuality is an overly involved mom. But, if that were the case, my brother would be gay and he is definitely not.

noone on my side i kno of is gay besides me hmmmmmmm i might hae to look into that

craziparker said
I know of several families that have multiple members who are gay. I absolutely believe homosexuality is genetic. The only environmental factor that I had that someone could possibly say is a contributor to my homosexuality is an overly involved mom. But, if that were the case, my brother would be gay and he is definitely not.

I definately agree that gay is not due to environmental factors, like most people I knew from a very early age (like 3years old) I was gay, and yet my mother consistently blamed herself after I came out. silly cow. lol. I must however have a genetic throwback from some anciently gay ancestors because no-one in my family tree is showing any signs? oh well. more power to me

adam81 said

craziparker said
I know of several families that have multiple members who are gay. I absolutely believe homosexuality is genetic. The only environmental factor that I had that someone could possibly say is a contributor to my homosexuality is an overly involved mom. But, if that were the case, my brother would be gay and he is definitely not.

I definately agree that gay is not due to environmental factors, like most people I knew from a very early age (like 3years old) I was gay, and yet my mother consistently blamed herself after I came out. silly cow. lol. I must however have a genetic throwback from some anciently gay ancestors because no-one in my family tree is showing any signs? oh well. more power to me

You have to keep in mind that environmental factors don't just begin at birth. Post-natal factors seem less and less to play any role at all in development of sexuality. There are factors in the womb (as I mentioned earlier, maternal hormones) which are thought to play an important role in brain differentiation. Someone may have all the gay genes but if the factors in utero are not just right they may not end up gay. Additionally, we are now coming to understand more about the switching on and off of genes in the embryo (such as in gene imprinting) which may help explain why identical twins who have the exact same genes and for the most part face the exact same conditions in the womb can still have differing sexualities.

Just me in my immediate family. I'm the 3rd of 4 kids (boy, girl, boy, girl).

I have one cousin that's Gay (more like twisted, been married 3 - 4 times, they were big girls, he likes big girls or big slongs, I don't get it). Needless to say, we don't converse much.

We had an Uncle that his Mom swore was Gay.

His Dad and my Mom are Brother and Sister.

No known relatives on my Dad's side.

Do have friends that all 3 siblings are Lesbians, and knew a guy that his dad was Bi, him and a brother are Gay, a sister is Lesbian, a Bi sister (poor Mom didn't have a chance).

Did enjoy the documentary by John Barrowman, The Making of Me, investigating the science of homosexuality. Did have a lot of interesting information brought to life. And answered a few questions about "why me".