Stars and Their Gay Brothers!

That said, Ingraham’s change of heart doesn’t mean she objects to or challenges most of the incredibly offensive anti-gay rhetoric said by callers to her radio show, nor does it means she’s developed any degree of sympathy for other sexual minorities; GLAAD named her as one of the top Anti-Gay Voices of 2008, in part for her anti-transgender rhetoric.

Like George Will and Charles Krauthammer on disabled issues, and like the Cheney family on gay issues, Ingraham seems to be yet another conservative who develops some small measure of understanding for an issue with which she has had personal experience, while remaining just as ignorant and judgmental in every other area of her life.

David Jones (Brother of Catherine Zeta Jones)

Zeta-Jones’ gay brother David (who also goes by Cameron) is an executive at the Initial Entertainment Group, which has produced a number of Martin Scorsese films. Together, David and Catherine planned to start producing films in Wales, where they were raised. The first film, Coming Out, about a gay cabaret singer who is suddenly expected to lead a rugby team to victory, was to star Alan Cumming and Zeta-Jones, and was all set to film in 2005, though financial problems have since delayed it, apparently indefinitely.

Chris Arnold (Brother of Tom Arnold)

"The only person who's now against gay weddings is my gay brother,” Tom Arnold told the World News Entertainment Network last year. “He said, 'Great. Now I'm going to be alone and broke like you.'”

Tom Arnold
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Arnold claims he has always been comfortable around gay people — in part because he always knew that Chris, one of his six siblings, was gay. Arnold told ContactMusic.com, “We lived in Iowa and then I moved out to Los Angeles and kept talking to him, I said, 'Chris just tell me. It's cool because I have a lot of gay friends.' He wouldn't come out with it, and then one time he came to a set with a guy and they had shorts on and the guy put his hand on my brother's leg and he didn't take it off. I remember my heart sank even though I said, 'I'm hip, and I'm cool.' It sank because I was scared that immediately people were going to be mean to him back in our small town and his life was going to be harder.”