POINT: Gay Rights Battle Is Far From Over The transformatn over the past two s how Amerins view gay people is the rult of one of the most succsful social jtice movements of morn tim.
Contents:
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- POT/COUNTERPOT: BOTH SIS OF THE GAY RIGHTS BATTLE DEBATE THE ISSU
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Begng May 2022, Mpox vis spread rapidly high-e untri through close human-to-human ntact primarily amongst muni of gay, bisexual and men who have sex wh men (GBMSM). Behavural change arisg om creased knowledge and health warngs may have rced the rate of transmissn and modified Vaccia-based vaccatn is likely to be an effective longer-term terventn. We vtigate the UK epimic prentg 26-week projectns g a stochastic discrete-populatn transmissn mol which clus GBMSM stat, rate of formatn of new sexual partnerships, and clique partng of the populatn. The Mpox s peaked mid-July; our analysis is that the cle was due to creased transmissn rate per fected dividual and fectn-duced immuny among GBMSM, pecially those wh the hight rate of new partners. Vaccatn did not e Mpox cince to turn over, however, we predict that a rebound s due to behavur reversn was prevented by high-risk group-targeted vaccatn. An outbreak of Mpox the UK began May 2022 and peaked July. In this mollg study, the thors show that the cle s was likely due to behavural chang among high-risk populatns, whilst vaccatn uld prevent a rebound. * human nature gay *
You told New Ia magaze 2013: "I thk a lot of people knew I was gay, but never beme an issue, which was really lovely. The gay sger's sexualy has never been much of a secret, but now that his tws are on the way, he's been much more open about his relatnship.
NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
* human nature gay *
To evolutnary blogists, the geics of homosexualy seems like a paradox. In theory, humans and other animals who are exclively attracted to others of the same sex should be unlikely to produce many blogil children, so any gen that predispose people to homosexualy would rarely be passed on to future generatns.
Yet same-sex attractn is wispread humans, and rearch suggts that is partly a study of data om hundreds of thoands of people, rearchers have now intified geic patterns that uld be associated wh homosexual behavur, and showed how the might also help people to fd different-sex mat, and reproduce. The thors say their fdgs, published on 23 Augt Nature Human Behavur1, uld help to expla why gen that predispose people to homosexualy ntue to be passed down. No ‘gay gene’: Massive study hom on geic basis of human sexualy.
POT/COUNTERPOT: BOTH SIS OF THE GAY RIGHTS BATTLE DEBATE THE ISSU
None of the variatns seemed to greatly affect sexual behavur on s own, backg up prev rearch that has found no sign of a ‘gay gene’. Most of the participants were born durg a time when homosexualy was eher illegal or culturally taboo their untri, so many people who were attracted to others of the same sex might never have actually acted on their attractn, and uld therefore have end up the wrong group the Monk, an elogist and evolutnary blogist at Yale Universy New Haven, Connecticut, thks that the veats are so important that the paper n’t draw any real nclns about geics and sexual orientatn.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
Instead, he thks the rearchers have found geic markers associated wh openns to new experienc, which uld expla the overlap between people who have had a homosexual partner and heterosexual people who have had many partners.
And he adms that g a sgle homosexual experience as an ditn of sexual orientatn isn’t ial, but says that the UK Bbank didn’t provi data on attractn. 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.
"Natural" means beg gay is not a choice.