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[quote=Anonymous]You said he's not out to them. In which case you say nothing, as it is his story to tell. It is never appropriate to out someone else.

And if they do know he's gay and they keep inviting him to events (and not just to try to 'reform' him), then it's on him. He doesn't want to come. These people may not like "gayness" but they still like him. They don't really see the two as related. It's going to continue to take time for these attitudes to die out.  None of us have the families we think we should have, we have the ones we've got. My family is very Italian Catholic, and the older generation still doesn't "get" homosexuality. Will go on rants against gay marriage as "weird" .  They've also had the favorite cousin/auntie and most gung-ho cousins' club organizer be a woman who was been living her "friend" for forty-plus years. Everyone knows what the "friendship" is, they've invited her partner to every family event, and no one has ever talked to her about her lifestyle, immortal soul, or anything else. Her "gayness" has been a non-issue for decades at this point. But that doesn't mean that the family members  like homosexuality in the abstract sense.

Your brother has chosen not to be a part of this family. That is his right. I'm not sure anything you spay will change his feelings about them. [/quote]

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