multiple LGBTQ+ in one family?

Not a clue. I live alone.

 

I am pansexual in a monogamous M/M relationship (although, I grew up believing I was gay until I realized differently in my mid-teens).

My twin sister is (and has always been) bisexual, although over the past decade has turned more and more towards women than men.

We have a male cousin (son of my mother's sister) that is gay.

None of our parents are interested in (or approving of) same sex relations.

 

Do cousins count? If so then yes.

 

I'm the first LGBT person in my mothers side of the family, at least to come out anyways. On my dad's side, I have my cousin, from my dad's brother, who is also FTM like me. My dad thinks that both my great grandparents were gay and living with eachother because it was different times back then. Though there isn't much solid proof of this, just speculation. But it is interesting about multiple LGBT in family. I'm friends with an FTM, who's sibling is MTF. So, ya, it's something interesting I think, and it's comforting as well more than anything.

 

My daughter is gay and I am at least bi don't know of any other family members though.

 

My sister's older daughter is a lesbian with a wife, and the jury is still out on her younger one. My other sister has a young son who sometimes dresses like a girl, and she is assuming he's either not fully straight or else doesn't think of himself fully as a boy. And one of my brother's boys has always given me a gay vibe; he's a high school senior, so I guess we'll see.

I also have a cousin I haven't seen in years but who I would absolutely say was gay, and another who I'm not close to, who I'd bet was a lesbian. And I've long suspected that my dad may have been extremely closeted. What's interesting is that my dad's father was married twice, and all the gays and potential gays are descended from Wife #2, my grandmother, including the two cousins (whose moms were my dad's two full sisters). Not a one from the first marriage or any of the resulting cousins. I know that the possibility of a "gay gene" has been pretty hotly debated over the years, and the last I've read it sounds like there may be multiple factors that lead to someone being gay, but in my family, it sure looks like a genetic thing.

 

No one closer than a cousin in my family.

It does put me in mind of a story though. I once was out to brunch and saw a friend of mine out with a rather distinguished looking older gentleman who obviously pinged the 'dar. I thought about dropping by to say "Hi" but they seemed pretty intent on their conversation, so I filed it away to ask about later. Sure enough, I ran into this friend a week or two later and asked him about the hot older gentleman he was having brunch with. I could see him sort of mentally running down the list of his recent social interactions and coming up blank, until it hit him: "OMG, that was my Dad!" Oops! But sure enough, he confirmed that dear ol' Dad was gay as a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

 

Oh this is the way it works. One biological cousin for sure. I highly suspect another biological cousin who is now dead, but based on what I know now, probably gay. And yes via marriage connection, another cousin.

 

Funnily enough in the one and only conversation I have had with my Mum in which I admitted to experiencing same sex attraction and having fallen in unrequited love with a woman, she responded by saying "I don't even know if I'm all that black and white myself". I was floored. Nothing more has been said and she has no idea yet that I have met and been dating another woman. I absolutely dread that conversation - my girlfriend's Mum knows and was okay with her sexuality until she started expressing it with me....it sounds like she is moving from shock and anxiety to acceptance now though...she is a practising Roman Catholic so I'm sure her religion makes it more difficult.

 

I have a bunch of gay cousins, nobody I live with though. My sister is asexual but doesn't consider herself LGBT.

 

I have 2 gay cousins and 1 bi cousin

Also, my best guy friend is one of 4 kids. 3 out of 4 of them are gay.

 

I would love to ask my mom if she ever had same sex attraction. She was a teenager during the 70s lol. I can't figure out how to ask though and my dad is always close by. They get phone calls through the computer and everyone close can hear because it plays straight out of the computer speakers.

 

Looking for me we should be bff's. I am something? Rainbow sexual? My daughter is bi and my son just came out as gay.

It threw me for six to be honest. I was concerned for him because i hate the way gay men are treated around this prejudiced city we live in and so worried about attitudes of my parents who see me as setting a poor example.
It took some time to digest. All is good now however, i cannot wait till mardi gras so we can go as a family!

 

I am the only one who's out but I've always had suspicions concerning my cousin (1 year older than me, he's married with a woman though, perhaps bi like me?) and I have doubts about a cousin in his teens too and there is also my only sister who's 28 and never had a serious relationship with someone in her life (although I think she is straight, could be in denial though!).

 

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I think that kind of conversation needs to unfold face-to-face, in private, and cannot be forced. I didn't ask my my Mum for any information - she volunteered it of her own free will. Maybe it was her way of saying that she wasn't sitting in judgement....

 

I wish i lived close enough for face to face but i do not.

 

I rarely see my Mum and our relationship has been difficult over the years, but still, one day she was in a listening place and she gave me the opportunity to open up and I told her. Try to keep hoping that one day the opportunity to open up might, surprisingly, present itself...I will keep hoping for you.