Seems logical that there would be, but I don’t want to assume here.
I’ve known and encountered a lot of gay people, but only a few little people. None of whom I knew to be gay. I’ve seen quite a lot of little people at gatherings and such but have no way of knowing if any of them were gay.
None of the gay people I’ve known were little.
So I wonder. Being in the little culture could, I guess, discourage gays from coming out.
Is this a silly question?
I have known four gay little people . . . three men and one woman.
Well, one thing that seems to be mentioned whenever this subject comes up is that there are not a lot of out gay LPs. One that I found that seems to have some prominence is Josh Walker, who among other things wrote the “Anthem of Little People.”
Josh is one of the four I have known. An amazing guy, and a very talented musician. He sang (and danced) in our chorus for a while, before moving to New York.
In the article by Fausto Fernós (at the above link courtesy of ñañi) he says “There’s just not a lot of openly gay little people out there”. But the site is dedicated to gay LPs, so I’d guess quite some number of gay LPs have not come out. Same for gay non-LPs, so that’s no surprise.
I wonder tho, given the general public’s reaction to little people, if being gay wouldn’t be a big additional burden.
All this thinking is the result of seeing the LP woman, a lawyer, on old episodes of Boston Legal. I can’t remember the character’s name, but she did give me some good chuckles. She takes no shit form anybody. 
Little people?
It’s the preferred term. “Midget” and “dwarf” are considered offensive by many of them.
My guesses were: children, fairies, hobbits, and short people, in that order. I’d assumed that, if anything, it would be an offensive term for people with dwarfism (overly cute and condescending). Interesting!
It seems we are short of gay midgets.
Okay, that one took me a minute.
That reminds me of a pet peeve; when mom and dad go into a restaraunt and the server asks “two and a half?”.
There are some, but man, that’s a real double-whammy of stigma. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are, percentage-wise, fewer out gay LPs than out gays in the general population.
The terminology battles are ever-evolving and unending. About the only thing generally agreed-on is that midget is best avoided, but some don’t mind it. Personally I loathe it, if only because it’s almost always what’s used when somebody is making fun of us. (Though I am still amused by gonzomax’s post. I’m not that oversensitive.)
I don’t get it.
The server is counting mom and dad as two, and the rugrat as 1/2. Like on the show “Two and a Half Men” Not a big thing, really. Just annoying to me.
Are you a parent?
I’m a parent, and I didn’t get it either, since you didn’t say that there was a kid along.
whiterabbit, I take it that your post is saying that you’re a little person. Do you mind if I ask a question?
Why do you think there is a stigma attached to being a little person? Your first paragraph above mentions one. A person’s height doesn’t give an indication of their IQ(I ought to know, my ex-husband was really tall!)
Well, dang, I guess I’m alone in being asked the question. It’s pretty common, though.
Stigma was a pretty strong word but it was the first thing that sprang to mind. I don’t know why there’s one; but for whatever reason in this world height matters. To some people it matters a lot. I haven’t been involved in any LPA activities for a while but when I was I heard a few four-foot-tall women saying they wouldn’t date a man shorter than they are. :rolleyes: Ask any really short man about how well he does with women, and then knock another foot off his height. It’s a bit easier for women, I think, but once you drop much below five feet it gets difficult.
Whenever I hear people saying their group is the last one it’s all right to mock, I always want to jump in and say not quite!
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Change “about how well he does with women” to “how he is perceived” – it’s not just dating where this stuff matters.
No, but I just didn’t get it because you just said “mom and dad.” I didn’t realize that the kid was along, too.