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Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

I Don't See Anything That Says Other People Are Gay,
AM I THE ONLY ONE?

THE SHORT ANSWER: No

Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the world's best-known sex researcher, concluded from his research that almost nobody is purely straight or purely gay. He found that most people have some attraction to both genders and that many people have some sexual experiences with the same sex - or with both sexes.

Think of it as a range or "sexual continuum". At one end of the range are many people who are attracted only to the same sex. At another end of the range are many people who are attracted only to the opposite sex. In between are people who are attracted to both sexes to some degree.

Wherever you are on that continuum, you've got plenty of company. Some estimates say that one in every ten people is gay.

There are gay people all around you - you just can't always tell who they are. They're white, black, Asian, Native and Hispanic. They're Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Morman and Buddhist. They're old and young, rich and poor, live in cities, towns and on farms. They're doctors and nurses, construction workers, teachers and students, ministers and rabbis, store clerks, mechanics, business people, farmers and ranchers, police officers, politicians and athletes.

When they were teenagers, most of them probably felt the same way you do.. If you start to feel that you're all by yourself, just remember, singer k.d. lang probably felt that way too - and Elton John, Olympic diver, Greg Louganis, singer, Melissa Etheridge, Members of Parliament, Svend Robinson and Real Menard, Edmonton City Councillor, Mike Phair - and thousands and thousands more.

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