How many of your friends (like really close and not pretend-friends) are straight? How many of them are straight men? We’re pretty sure that you have at least one non-gay friend whom you’re close with. These straight female and male friends are what most of us know as fag hags and fag stags (or as we’d like to call them here, Fab Hags and Fab Stags).
Well, looking at it from our own points of view, we would surmise that we have a lot. But how many of these friends actually consider us to be real friends? Some would say that they have at least 1 fab hag and at least one-half of a fab stag. We don’t have actual numbers and research to prove that, but that’s what we would like to think. In the US though, a recent research has found that more than 4 out of 10 Americans have gay or lesbian friends.
In the United States, a recent national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press have found that at least 41% of Americans are fab hags and fab stags. Well, not necessarily fab hags and fab stags, but the respondents said that some of their friends are gays and lesbians.
Here are some of the survey findings:
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- Those who say they have a family member or close friend who is gay are more than twice as likely to support gay marriage as those who don’t: 55 percent to 25 percent.
- More women than men - 47 percent versus 35 percent - say they have a close friend or family member who is gay.
- Conservative Republicans are the least likely to say they have a close gay friend or family member (33 percent)
- Liberal Democrats are most likely to say they have a close gay friend or family member (59 percent).
- Mainline Protestants and seculars are the most likely to say they had a gay family member or close friend: 47 percent say so.
my friend has lots, she’s a fag hag magnet.
