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Contents:

• BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS
• FAI WH MULTIPLE GAY CHILDREN
• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
• CHLOë GRACE MORETZ ON GROWG UP WH GAY SIBLGS AS CHRISTIANS
• TWO GAY BROTHERS
• DO YOU KNOW ANY GAY SIBLGS?
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
• WHY CAN'T TWO GAY BROTHERS MARRY?
• WHY CAN'T TWO GAY BROTHERS MARRY?

BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS

In my own study of 65 gay youth and their fai, young Ain-Amerin men talked about how their brothers and other male relativ felt they were addg to society's already negative image of black manhood. Si by Si: On Havg a Gay or Lbian Siblg by Andrew Gottlieb is a sensive, sightful anthology nsistg of says wrten by siblgs of lbians and gays who discs how they, too, bee objects of abe and tolerance, sharg the stigma of their gay siblgs.

Several of the ntributors to this volume discsed how they formed pecially close bonds wh their gay brothers and sisters and, like some of the parents my study, veloped new, more tolerant worldviews that enriched their liv. In addn, I have also seen parents wh good tentns isolate their gay children's younger siblgs, keepg the gay child's sexual orientatn a secret and therefore excludg brothers and sisters om fay discsns of this topic. At other tim, this is done advertently when, after the gay child out, parents and gay kids emotnally whdraw om the fay, leavg siblgs to al wh their reactns alone.

" Many therapists who have worked wh young children, whose prejudic are not yet fully formed, know how surprisgly flexible they n be when to unrstandg topics such as homosexualy if they are explaed ways that are le wh their gnive abili. However, there is some evince that pared to fai wh no gay siblgs, if one son a fay is gay, his brothers are statistilly more likely to be. In my study, there were two fai that clud two siblgs who were gay, and both s, seemed that by the time the parents found out about the send child, they had an easier time adjtg than they did when they found out about their first child.

FAI WH MULTIPLE GAY CHILDREN

However, is possible that some parents might experience exponentially more self-blame, guilt, loss, and worry if they have two or more gay or lbian children.

The male homosexual siblg who was terviewed displayed a strong intifitn wh his mother via a feme self-intifitn, the adoptn of the hoewife role a homosexual marriage, and the adoptn of the passive role anal terurse.

The two multiple homosexual siblg fai provi support for theori that emphasize the importance of early fay relatnships the velopment of a homosexual adaptatn.

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

There are many factors that may terme how siblgs react to your g out as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr: their age, their relatnship wh you, matury level, parental fluence, relig views, and so on.

Durg her speech at Logo’s gural Trailblazers special 2014, the “Sorry Not Sorry” sger accreded her grandfather, who was an openly gay man, as her source of spiratn:.

The gay in has an openly gay brother, Christopher Cicne, who has worked closely wh his famo sister over the years; he even ma an appearance the sger’s mic vio for “Lucky Star. Last November, the This Is Us star revealed that her mother left her father for another woman, and that she also has two gay brothers. Last year, the Supergirl actor me to the fense of his “sweet gay ” Sarah, whom Jordan alleged was admted an anti-gay boardg school Texas lled Heartlight Mistri.

CHLOë GRACE MORETZ ON GROWG UP WH GAY SIBLGS AS CHRISTIANS

In 2006, Scissor Sisters sger Ana Matronic opened up to The Guardian about her parents’ separatn that led to her learng that her father’s homosexualy when he left the hoehold to live wh another man. He is a Democratic member of the New York State 03-21-1962Age: 61Birthplace: Commack, New York, USATwo of Chloë Grace Moretz's brothers are gay. Their last album, Heartbreak, buted at number three on the Billboard 09-19-1980Age: 42Birthplace: Calgary, CanadaJoshua Miller and his brother Jab are both openg gay.

A qualative quiry to the liv of 57 Ain-, European-, Mexin-, and Vietname-Amerin young adult gay men unrsr the unique challeng faced by young gay people of lor (Merighi & Grim, 2000).

A 24-year-old Mexin-Amerin gay male ptur the plexy of intifyg as a gay man suated extend fay works and broar cultural expectatns:I jt felt like I was gog to be a bad son by [g out]… sayg that I’m gay, I might have a negative effect the fay terms of how others might view the fay, not jt me…. A qualative vtigatn examg 35 predomantly Whe gay upl’ motivatns for pursug parenthood found that one-third of men scribed a posive experience growg up a close fay (Goldberg, Downg, & Moyer, 2012).

TWO GAY BROTHERS

Ined, some fdgs pot to blogil relatedns as a way to strengthen the fay of orig ti (Nebelg Petersen, 2018) while simultaneoly g nongeilly related fay members to have difficulty regnizg the child as a member of the fay (see chapter “Gay Men and Surrogacy”). A study of 40 Filipo and Lato gay young men found that siblgs provid support when g out to immigrant parents, offerg to stand up for their siblg and challenge heteronormative expectatns:My mom was cryg when I first told her I had a boyiend.

Ompo (2014) signals the herent strs associated wh actg the mediator role yet unrsr s signifince bridgg the fay, as bt articulated when one heterosexual siblg “felt was worth when she saw her parents fally bee open not only to their gay children, but also their children’s partners” (p. A se study of a Romani fay livg Belgium showed that after their father beme vlent toward their gay brother, two siblgs tervened and years later their brother ocsnally “asks [them] to say hello to his father for him” (Haxhe, Cerezo, Bergfeld, & Walloch, 2018, p. G., beg a gay man vers a lbian, or beg “butch” vers “femme”) as well as stigmas faced by bisexual and transgenr dividuals their own fai and the larger LGBTQ muny.

Siblg Ti Midlife and Later LifeTakg to acunt the historil ntext of mid- and later-life LGBTQ sibships, them of homophobia, transphobia, and ostracizatn are likely to be prent. This hort me-of-age the ntext of the cultural revolutn for gay liberatn that was marked by the Stonewall Rts of June 1969, a time when homosexualy was still illegal and emed a mental illns.

DO YOU KNOW ANY GAY SIBLGS?

Although the discrimatory attus and practic still exist across a multu of personal and polil ntexts, they are beg ls tolerated by younger generatns (Pew Rearch Center, 2019) ltle attentn has been paid to LGBTQ siblg relatnships later life, wh the exceptn of Connidis (2007, 2010) who has ed se studi to reveal the value of siblg and fay of orig ti for olr gay men and lbians. "I have two gay brothers and two straight brothers, and my gay brothers were treated horrifilly until they grew up and unrstood how to al wh , " tells Moretz to Seventeen magaze a ver story of s September issue.

"My fay is the biggt part of my entire life and no matter what they always take precence over anythg that go on my reer, " told Moretz to a Daily News 's New Role Got Her Closer To SiblgsIn The Mistn of Cameron Post, Moretz plays a kid sent to a homosexual nversn therapy mp the 1990s, and her olr gay siblgs, Col and Trevor, are fans of the show. Chloë Grace Moretz On Set Of The Mistn of Cameron Post (Photo: Moretz's Instagram)Growg up Geia, Moretz rells several people the town who "prayed the gay away. Brought up a Christian fay, Moretz prais her siblgs, Col and Trevor, for growg up gay and g out unr a very relig environment of Christian Baptists.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

I'm my 20s, still stuck at home and tryg to get a better job to get out, my parents are very nservative and homophobic, and at this rate I'd planned to never e out to them.

The whole time he was talkg to me and I'm sg I was thkg about how hard this will be for him, the ia of our parents fdg out both their sons are gay, wonrg if my fluence as an olr brother ma him this way, reilg at the revelatn he's already had a sexual experience, then the horrifyg thought that he might enunter someone I've already enuntered (or someone I blocked bee they were crazy or vlent). A iend of me is a tw and they're both my bt iend is the youngt of 5 siblgs and we have major spicns one of his olr brothers is gay (the olr brother qutn is a tholic prit) Anonymoreply 2October 1, 2015 5:25 PM.

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

He me out first and was a huge disappotment to his Catholic parents after always beg the favore son, but then his brother me out and wh the gay thg beg moot my iend rumed his role as good son and their Mom had lots of therapy. I also have a gay olst sister's ex-boyiend had a son and dghter who both grew up to be has a son and dghter, and both have intified at as bisexual at one pot, although the dghter currently has a boyiend, and the son currently intifi as straight, although he's had a boyiend the past (he's only 14) Anonymoreply 18October 1, 2015 10:16 PM.

A goodlookg gay guy I knew at school and kept touch wh, was always very 'now' - wore the right cloth, was always around the right people and plac, went to the right universy, end up workg at the right magaze and then moved rapidly upwards London circl, regalg me wh telephone lls outlg his fabulo liftyle..... However, durg the late 90s, the lls took on a different tone as his geeky, unattractive brother had returned to the UK after a uple of years travellg, only to announce that he too was gay and did no more than move to London, tent on ridg the at tails of his brother's shimmerg liftyle - much to his embarrassment, annoyance and tratn. She and her brother clost to her age (#5 & #6 birth orr) are gay, and they've always assumed their olst brother (a Catholic prit) is a self-loathg closet Anonymoreply 32October 2, 2015 7:20 PM.

I dated a guy for a year but we broke up and a uple years later I ran to his olr brother at a bar - gay bar- and we end up sleepg together a uple tim. Not siblgs but my bt iend is gay and so is his blogil father my bt iend was adopted but met his blogil parents later Anonymoreply 34October 2, 2015 7:59 PM.

WHY CAN'T TWO GAY BROTHERS MARRY?

I remember seeg a documentary(on HBO I thk) 10 years ago about a large fay wh a fundamentalist charismatic Xtian mother and every last one of the adult siblgs were gay.

My iend Michael, who died of AIDS-related lymphoma a few years ago after havg been posive for over two s, had a gay olr brother who died of AIDS back the early '90s. I have plenty of iends who are gay siblgs but then there are good iends who are intil tws and one is gay and the other is not (but perhaps the nellit straight man I know so he may e out at sixty) Anonymoreply 45October 3, 2015 3:24 AM. There's a Netflix documentary (I thk), about a redneck, homophobic mother wh five kids, four boys and a girl, all of them Anonymoreply 49October 4, 2015 3:37 PM.

WHY CAN'T TWO GAY BROTHERS MARRY?

Your average gay man is so attentn-seekg I don't see how there would be enough to go around if there were two one Anonymoreply 51April 5, 2020 3:14 PM.