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You know the old saying, Birds of a feather flock together...
My niece is 20 and away at college. back in high school she had a boyfriend but when she went to college she is friends with openly gay students. I have this theory that people only hang around or associate with people who they share common goals/ground with. With that said, I think that since she hangs around lesbians, that she too is a lesbian. I could care less what orientation she is, but her parents are very religious so I think she might be ashamed or embarrassed to "come out" to them or afraid of how they would react. My question for the board is would a hetero girl hang around non hetero girls? To me I just don't see how that would make sense.
You know the old saying, Birds of a feather flock together...
My niece is 20 and away at college. back in high school she had a boyfriend but when she went to college she is friends with openly gay students. I have this theory that people only hang around or associate with people who they share common goals/ground with. With that said, I think that since she hangs around lesbians, that she too is a lesbian. I could care less what orientation she is, but her parents are very religious so I think she might be ashamed or embarrassed to "come out" to them or afraid of how they would react. My question for the board is would a hetero girl hang around non hetero girls? To me I just don't see how that would make sense.
So you do have room to care, then?
Or you couldn't care less?
Anyway, to answer your question; makes perfect sense. People go off to college, broaden their horizons, get to meet different sorts of people. My hetero female friends hang around me and my wife (same sex marriage here)... I've hung out with gay guys, straight guys, hetero women. You know, PEOPLE.
I am 41, bisexual, married once to a guy and now married to a woman. My friends are a divorced hetero female art teacher with a kid, a bisexual woman married to a guy, a young single gay guy, a 60 year old married Catholic grandma, a 36 year old lesbian in a long term relationship, and a hetero woman married 15 years. Friends are just friends to me, their orientation is irrelevant.
Maybe your niece just felt that she couldn't freely choose her friends within the constraints of her home life with having such religious parents?
I have lots of lesbian friends and I'm not a lesbian. Maybe she likes who they are as people. Young people don't appear as squeamish about hanging out with all kinds of people as older folk.
You know the old saying, Birds of a feather flock together...
My niece is 20 and away at college. back in high school she had a boyfriend but when she went to college she is friends with openly gay students. I have this theory that people only hang around or associate with people who they share common goals/ground with. With that said, I think that since she hangs around lesbians, that she too is a lesbian. I could care less what orientation she is, but her parents are very religious so I think she might be ashamed or embarrassed to "come out" to them or afraid of how they would react. My question for the board is would a hetero girl hang around non hetero girls? To me I just don't see how that would make sense.
I'm heterosexual and I was active in gay rights back home because it's something I believe in. So I have a lot of gay friends. I was once the only straight female advisor to a lesbian dodgeball team, actually.
I also know a straight man who majored in theater and outside of work has almost exclusively friends who are gay men.
She may be gay. Or her circles may expand as she spends more time at school. She could be experimenting. She could be flipping a big ol' bird at her parents.
Just be her aunt and let her know you have her back.
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