During ABC’s Good Morning America Pride Month segment Tuesday, LGBT reporters Becky Worley, Robin Roberts, and Sam Champion spoke on the phenomenon that was “guncles.” Gay uncles. Everybody’s got one. You know that one uncle with the skin-tight white pants and the “roommate” that your mom told you not to ask any questions about at the family reunion? These days, people are celebrating him.
This new term, popularized by the internet in the last few years, was gaining traction as a way of shouting out gay uncles who played a positive role in their families’ lives. “If you are lucky enough to have a brother who wants to be in his niece or nephew's lives,” Worley said, “there's a good chance all of you will be fabulously enriched by this multigenerational relationship.”
If the criteria for being a “guncle” was just being a brother who wanted to be in his niece or nephew’s lives, it would seem there was no difference between him and his straight counterpart.
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