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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• GAY
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS
• DEFN OF GAY GENE
• NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

The gay datg app Grdr n seem like a mefield wh s extensive e of slang – here’s what terms like GEN, NPNC and si mean.Grdr is the most popular LGBTQ datg app the world and a cemented part of gay culture. SiThe word “si” the ntext of Grdr, and gay culture more generally, refers to someone’s sexual preference.

Acrdg to Urban Dictnary, a si is “a homosexual male who do not enjoy anal peratn (givg or receivg), but will engage other forms of same sex activy.”TECH: ‘INSTAGRAM IS ADDING PROFILE VIEWS’ RUMOR RESURFACES IN 2023What do NSA and LTR mean?The term NSA stands for “No strgs attached,” meang that someone is lookg for somethg fun wh no mment or a one-night stand. (some ads may be as short as this; a gay male "top" offerg a negotiable sh payment for someone to e "bottom" for him)Get the gen mug. Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer. A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man." Intersex is an umbrella term ed to scribe people wh differenc reproductive anatomy, chromosom or hormon that don't f typil fns of male and female. Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women.

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WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

|Are all “gen seekers” on Grdr gay? You might thk means “genue” at first glance sce Grdr is a datg app, but the niche world of gay onle datg, you n never be too sure what a slang word means. Although Grdr ters overwhelmgly to gay, queer, and bisexual men, there are some male ers who intify as straight.

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They might be cur about or qutng their sexualy, terted experiencg a gay hookup out of cursy, or simply lookg for wealthy “gen” partners for money. Men this last tegory are known cly as beg “gay for pay. The term “gen” might be more mon on gay apps like Grdr, but the ia is not limed to jt gay men or queer people.

In fact, there are many datg apps—both gay and straight—signed specifilly to facilate “sugar daddy” or “sugar mama” nnectns. “Gen” might refer to someone who’s not gay, but this is a rare age. Ocsnally, “gen” (as “general populatn”) might pop up as a way to scribe someone who’s not gay or queer, or who hasn’t e out of the closet yet.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

This isn’t super mon though, and the words “straight, ” “hetero, ” “closeted, ” or simply “not gay” are more popular and universally unrstood.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

Person A: “Is he gay?

In this se, “gen” is short for “general dienc” and refers to a genre of fanfictn that don’t clu any romantic or sexual teractns (gay, straight, or otherwise). There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian.

The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene. In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual.

MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS

It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty. Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai.

“As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother. “We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018. Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene.

The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum.

DEFN OF GAY GENE

In other words, tri to judge if a person leans gay, straight or bisexual.

NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY

“[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said. Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay?