I'm not the only non-heterosexual one in the family! Yay!

[lightningandsnow]

So I have a bisexual cousin. Okay, she's like a second cousin by marriage.

But still. This is monumental. You have no idea how straight my family is.

Seriously, it was so awkward being the only LGBT one in the whole big extended family. Or so I thought.

We were talking on Facebook chat and came out to each other. Fun times.

Edited for gratuitous use of the word "okay". I really need to stop that...

[DarkTirade]

1. My dad's side of the family is all straight...

but my mom's side, not so much. :P

Let's see... blood relation-wise there's one GL and B in the family (counting me), and then adding in marriage and adoption there's one more L and B. And I suspect my cousin may be at least bi-curious, he asked me a few more questions when he was a teenager than most guys would be interested to know the answers to.

[Rhythm]

2. I'm the only one in my whole extended family...

Much to my mom's annoyance, this did not keep me from bringing assorted girlfriends home to holiday get-togethers and such.

Not to mention the sordid phone calls that mom got after i ended up on the front page of the local paper -- holding one end of the banner for a GLBT group marching in the Charlotte St. Patrick's parade downtown ('86).

[lightningandsnow]

3. Win!

And, by the way, I bet you're not the only one in the whole extended family. 10% of the population - there's got to be one or two others. :P

[Rhythm]

4. I know that's a statistical fact, but i know my extended biological relatives very, very well...

Our gene-pool is absolutely a statistical anomaly.

I could care less... i'm out enough to make up for it. *L*

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. On my dad's side, there are about 200 of us, and no one is openly gay.

Which really makes me wonder if someone, or some group, is keeping a secret. And certainly being mostly rural, conservative, old-school folk, being gay would have been a big no-no a few years ago; though I think the family would accept it now - their prejudices are slowly disappearing as their exploration of the world has gone up.

Or, maybe our family line just doesn't have the gay gene.

Still, it seems weird to have that huge of a family, and no one who's gay. Or even suspected gay.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. No one in my family, either.

It's weird, actually.

[eyepaddle]

7. I can't think of any on EITHER side of my family. Of course on my dad's side

it is only about 25 people; my mom's side is larger, but since they tend towards the Iowegian-funamentalist-conservative-type I am not really very close with many of them, so I can't really say. But yeah, I've kinda wondered about this too...

[lightningandsnow]

8. This is interesting.

I know some people with families with tons of LGBTQ folk, and a few big extended families with none. It's fascinating.

[BreweryYardRat]

9. I think I'm it. (Bi.)

If not, since every family member except one cousin and his very straight parents live in the Deep South, and most of them live in small towns, I'm not likely to find out.

[rurallib]

10. I can't imagine anyone in my family talking about their sex lives

I am sure they would rather die.