Is it normal teenage behavior to introduce your friends to your family and

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include their sexual orientation? I was introduced to my nieces friends as in "this is my gay friend, Donny" Personally, I don't think I needed to know that Donny is gay. If I were a gay male, I might have needed to know that but since I'm just an Aunt..I see no need to share that bit of information. Should I have been impressed that he was open about it or should I have been proud that i'm the "cool aunt" and included in the personal and private details of someones life? When you introduce your straight friends, you don't say, this is my friend, Jenny, she likes men... How do you feel when your friends introduce you as their gay friend, is it ok with you or should they keep it to themselves?
 
My friends do that all the time. We think it's funny, but that's just me. I can definitely see where it would bother some people, but I figure that if you're open about it...then why should you care. If people don't like it they don't like it. But I also see where it would be inappropriate. It all depends on the situation and the person I guess. I see both sides of it.
 
I don't think its any of the families business your friend sexual orientation
 
Honestly, your niece is being a little dumb. Being gay isn't important, including it in a general introduction just makes it seem like it's somehow a bad or unusual thing.
 
It's not okay with me...because I'm not gay!
If they introduce me as their STRAIGHT friend, I'm fine with that, even if it's to a group of gay people.
 
they should keep it to themselves.
it's not EVERYONE'S business to know who a person is interested in.
you're sexuality only makes up a small part of who you are.
 
That's a little weird.
I'd probably not be speaking to anybody who defined me as only my sexuality ever again.

Then again, I'm closeted, for the most part.
 
It's normal enough for teenage girls (and some women well out of their teens). It's annoying, but it's normal.

I say next time you're introducing her to someone you call her "my straight niece, __________". I'm also kind of a smartass like that though.
 
I think that is SOOOOOOOOOOO aggravating when I'm introduced by my homosexuality.
Sometimes I have to inform them that my name is Aaron and that my name isn't "gay friend." Being gay is only a part of me, why am I never introduced by anything else?
 
I do it all the time, not just if they're gay. More like "This is my nympho sister Sarah who has genital warts and that's her alcoholic friend Jenny. This is my bitchy menopausal mother Jane and my impotent father, Mike. My brother Steve here is gayer than that dude on Big Brother and his wife Gretchen who is in denial and possibly mildly retarded."
 
Your sexual orientation is personal. You wouldn’t respond to this Donny guy with, “Hi, I’m ______. I’m straight.”

I wouldn’t say that it’s not “normal” teenage behavior, because teenagers like to make big news out of everything, but to many homosexuals that sort of thing is aggravating.
 
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