I don’t know anybody that’s gay. Or if I do know them, they haven’t made their gayness known to me.
I almost met a lesbian couple once. They had parts in my nephew’s wedding but at the last minute he moved the wedding from Florida to Las Vegas. So I didn’t go to the wedding and therefore didn’t meet the lesbian couple.
Not really sure. I don’t ask.
My social life is centered on social dancing where men ask women to dance and dating between the sexes is a big part of the scene. Because of that I’m pretty sure most of my friends are straight.
I don’t know for sure. I have one long time friend who lives in another city who is a married lesbian; I used to have some gay co-workers at my old job but if any of my current co-workers are gay it hasn’t come up yet. My brother-in-law has neighbors who are a gay couple we see a couple times a year, and we like them but that’s stretching the definition of “friends with.”
If we had gay marriage in this state I would probably find out that I knew more gay people than I thought.
Gay people who own or operate businesses give other gay people discounts.
At the moment, only about 3 or 4. But I don’t have a lot of friends / acquaintances. I live in San Fran, which may skew the results. But then again, I could have a few beers with anyone, even someone I barely know, and make reasonable conversation.
So there’s my worthless answer.
ETA : After re-reading the OP - this is froma circle of less than 2 dozen people I really know well. Expand that to the OP’s couple hundred, and we’re talking dozens.
Joe
Most of my close male friends are gay, which I guess isn’t that surprising considering some people’s views and limitations when it comes to platonic friendships between straight men and women. No close lesbian friends, though, just casual ones. I kind of get why, though – I was friendly with a hot lesbian in college and she not only got hit on by her male ‘friends,’ her straight female ‘friends’ assumed she was going to steal their boyfriends, eventually. Last I checked, she’s still gay.
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My best friend and my little sister-in-law are both lesbians. I am very close to both of them. I am also close to my best friend’s ex and by best friend’s current wife. I have some friends at school I think may be gay but it hasn’t come up. My affinity for lesbians is a running joke in our household.
I grew up in a conservative town and in high school I easily knew 15 gay people, and in my extremely tight clique of 5 students I was the only straight one. Then I attended a liberal university and oddly enough the number of gay friends I had decreased dramatically. Contrary to what you’d expect, the more liberal my environment, it seems the fewer gay people I hang out with.
I have one close friend who lots of people think is gay. I’m not sure if he is or not, but if so, he’s deeply in the closet. I had friends in college who are gay, but I’m not really in close contact with any of them any more. I have a few acquaintances who I know are gay, and probably some more that are that I just don’t know about.
I’m not really sure; sexual orientation isn’t something I ask about and not everyone shares it with me - even folks I’m close enough to to have over the house a few times a year. For a lot of them I would have to guess. Of those I know/have said as much to me ------ say 6. Two close enough “friend-wise” to have keys to our house.
None that I know of. Like some others here, my social group consists of rather casual acquaintences. Hang out at happy hour after work; group goes out for lunch; fun times at the Christmas Party, etc. Oh, and my Sunday school class.
Adding it all up…social group at work is about 30 people. Social group at church is about 20. Zero gays (again, that I know of). Same thing with high school, college, grad shcool. None ever self-identified.
Except my major professor at grad school. He was (is) gay.
Straight male, 39.
There’s one guy in my fantasy football league who’s gay and out, and we’re “friends” in peripheral sort of way.
He’s the only person I know who’s gay and out.
Let’s see…the captain of my old hockey team and her wife, 99% sure my boss is gay (she never said outright, but she talks about her partner), my cousin, my old junior high boyfriend (who was showing signs of it even back then, though I was too clueless and sheltered to see it) and a very cool gay male couple in my WoW guild…so that makes 7. Probably more that I don’t know about, but those are the ones who are (at least mostly) out and who I’d be friendly enough with to go out to dinner.
Ten or a dozen or so, that I am relatively certain about. Probably several more at work.
Regards,
Shodan
I have 5 very close friends:
…and none of use are gay but we have kissed other girls just for fun.
Going by the criteria in the OP, I’d say a dozen or so of my friends would identify as gay or bisexual.
I’ve got a fairly varied social circle as a whole, though. It’s what usually happens if you live in Toronto long enough… the city is full of people from a wide range of ethnicities, religions and sexual preferences, and I could easily rhyme off a friend or two to fit just about any criteria.
Two of my best friends are bi- one leans lesbian, one leaning straight, and I’m drinking buddies with several other lesbians and several gay men.
I’m probably forgetting a few, but I do live in the Castro, so they don’t exactly stand out in my mind.
Neither does whether they like Mexican food or not, but I know some of my friends hate burritos anyway.