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Contents:
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
- NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
Have you ever wonred if, how, or why animals engage homosexual (same sex) behavr?
In nature, homosexual, or same-sex sexual behavr, n take many forms. While homosexual behavr is mon nature, we are still learng what tras are associated wh homosexual behavr, what geic factors might ntribute to homosexualy, and what benefs dividuals n ga om homosexual behavr.
We discsed papers that examed homosexual behavr across wi taxa, observg dividual behavr, early life and matg strategi, and geic factors that ntribute to homosexual behavr. The news this week that the largt study of s kd failed to nfirm the existence of a "gay gene" is not so much a disappotment for those lookg to unrstand the LGBTQ muny, as is an acknowledgement that science do not need to tell what should be plaly obv: gays, lbians, bisexuals and pansexuals are who they are. But here's the quote that will light opponents of LGBTQ rights, some of whom sist they n "nvert" gay people to choose to be straight by prayg the gay away:.
NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
"There is no ‘gay gene’ that term whether someone has same-sex partners, ” said Ganna, who is also a geicist at the Broad Instute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Universy of Helski. While the variatns the gen are not enough to raise a rabow flag and label anyone as unqutnably gay, the rearchers say the blogil variants may at the very least partly fluence sexual behavr.
This new rearch, he said “provis even more evince that beg gay or lbian is a natural part of human life, a ncln that has been drawn by rearchers and scientists time and aga. This new rearch also renfirms the long tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav.
Geics nnot tell "the whole story, " as Eric Vila, director of the Center for Geic Medice Rearch at Children’s Natnal Health System, told the Post, about what "mak" somebody gay. But even if people are not "Born This Way, " as Lady Gaga sang, at last now we n jo Gloria Gaynor sgg, "I Am What I Am. The notn that SSB has arisen nvergently so many different leag only mak tuive sense om a heteronormative world view which ‘heterosexual’ behavur is amed as the ‘natural orr’ for sexually reproducg speci, and ‘homosexualy’ is viewed as a recent aberratn whose existence mt be explaed and jtified12.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
Homosexual Behavur Animals: An Evolutnary Perspective (Cambridge Univ. Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy (Maclan, 1999).