[Jessica30642]

Mostly, my opinion of homosexuals came from the people I was around in childhood; my mother raised my half-brother and myself alone, and as she was a fairly open-minded person, more or less left us to our own opinions. My mother worked for years in the hotel and entertainment business, and while I don’t mean to be stereotypical, there *do* seem to be a lot of gay people working in the hotel and entertainment business. I and my brother were exposed to her friends growing up, several of whom happened to be gay men. As she was always up-front with their sexualities (‘Uncle Nick and Uncle Joe are a special kind of friends and love each other very much!’) I grew up regarding homosexuality as a very normal, every-day thing. I loved her friends as adoptive ‘uncles’, and since I never thought of their orientation as ‘wierd’ or ‘strange’, they never seemed threatening to me. Both I and my brother are two of the more comfortable people I’ve met, in terms of our sexualities. My brother is, in fact, one of the very few straight men I ever knew who had gay male friends! In this I assign credit to our mother, who made it a point to deride homophobes and who was never afraid to be proud of her friends, gay or straight.

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Name : Jessica30642, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 16, City : jackson, State : MS, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class, 

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