Are Same Street’s Bert & Ernie gay? A ntroversial history, explaed. - Vox

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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
• THE GAY MALE COUPLE’S GUI TO NONMONOGAMY
• THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
• GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
• THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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

When the state's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriag, forced the public to, for the first time, serly nsir the possibily of unns between gay and lbian upl — and this opened the door to a shift public opn that has culmated majory support for marriage equaly today. "Rather, is a mon sense reflectn of the fact that [homosexual] relatnships do not rult the birth of children, or tablish hoeholds where a child will be raised by s birth mother and father.

But supporters of marriage equaly said 's unfair and discrimatory that same-sex upl are nied the benefs — pecially sce many gay and lbian parents have children of their own that uld greatly benef om the fancial and cultural advantag of a legally regnized unn. Image source, ThkstockIn the last two s, dozens of scientific papers have been published on the blogil origs of homosexualy - another announcement was ma last week. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's h song Same Love, which has bee an unofficial anthem of the pro-gay marriage mpaign the US, reflects how many gay people feel about their mocks those who "thk 's a cisn, and you n be cured wh some treatment and relign - man-ma rewirg of a predisposn".

Also relevant - although no way proof - is rearch intifyg physil differenc the bras of adult straight and gay people, and a dizzyg array of homosexual behavur animals. "How n a tra like male homosexualy, which has a geic ponent, persist over evolutnary time if the dividuals that rry the gen associated wh that tra are not reproducg?

THE GAY MALE COUPLE’S GUI TO NONMONOGAMY

The evolutn of lbianism is relatively unrstudied - may work a siar way or be pletely gen that for homosexualy do other thgs tooThe allele - or group of gen - that sometim s for homosexual orientatn may at other tim have a strong reproductive benef. This would pensate for gay people's lack of reproductn and ensure the ntuatn of the tra, as non-gay rriers of the gene pass are two or more ways this might happen. "We know that women tend to like more feme behavural featur and facial featur their men, and that might be associated wh thgs like good parentg skills or greater empathy, " says Qazi Rahman, -thor of Born Gay; The Psychoblogy of Sex Orientatn.

Andrea Camper-Ciani, at the Universy of Padova Italy, found that maternal female relativ of gay men have more children than maternal female relativ of straight men. Gay people were 'helpers the nt'Image source, Jeante MankelowImage ptn, The fa'afafe of Samoa dislike beg lled "gay" or "homosexual"Some rearchers believe that to unrstand the evolutn of gay people, we need to look at how they f to the wir culture.

The ia is that gay people pensate for their lack of children by promotg the reproductive fns of brothers or sisters, ntributg money or performg other uncle-like activi such as babystg or tutorg. Vasey hasn't yet measured jt how much havg a homosexual orientatn boosts siblgs' reproductn rate, but he has tablished that Samoa "gay" men spend more time on uncle-like activi than "straight" men. Vasey speculat that part of the reason the fa'afafe are more attentive to their nephews and niec is their acceptance Samoan culture pared to gay men the Wt and Japan ("You n't help your k if they've rejected you").

THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX

That hypothis has led Vasey to speculate that the gay men who intify as men and have mascule tras - that is to say, most gay men the Wt - are scend om men who had a cross-genred people do have childrenImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Elton John and David Furnish have had two children wh a surrogate mother, although the inty of the blogil father is secretIn the US, around 37% of lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people have a child, about 60% of which are blogil.

Acrdg to the Williams Instute, gay upl that have children have an average of figur may not be high enough to sta geic tras specific to this group, but the evolutnary blogist Jeremy Yor pots out a blog post that for much of morn history gay people haven't been livg openly gay liv. In the 1940s, US sex rearcher Aled Ksey found that while jt 4% of whe men were exclively gay after adolcence, 10% had a three-year perd of gay activy and 37% had gay sex at some pot their liv.

GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG

But most scientists rearchg gay evolutn are terted an ongog, ternal pattern of sire rather than whether people intify as gay or straight or how often people have gay sex.

This has nothg to do wh Gee Orwell, but scrib the observatn that boys wh olr brothers are signifintly more likely to bee gay - wh every olr brother the chance of homosexualy creas by about a third.

THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED

And even if heterosexual sex is more advantageo evolutnary terms than gay sex, 's not only gay people whose sexualy is termed by their gen, he says, but straight people too.

Image source: Getty Imag2021's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is the first to be officially regnized by a print sce 2016 -- certaly e for celebratn! "I believe gay upl have an credible opportuny to create whatever type of relatnship works bt for them whout the nstrats of a societal norm, " he one partner wants an open relatnship and the other do not, "one person has to yield, " says Loren A. Ined, most men terviewed for this story chose to e a psdonym or te first nam only for fear that their loved on -- both gay and straight -- would misnste or disapprove.

Datg back to the ancient Greece, anal sex played a role the exprsn of same-sex sexualy (albe, wh fewer varieti of lube) art of anal sex is the thg that, both posively and negatively, has e to reprent gay men. That special missn nclud wh 53 percent of church lears and lay people votg to tighten language on s same-sex marriage ban at a general nference last Febary, a measure sayg “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. Siarly, the Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the US, ntu to margalize LGBTQ ngregants, wh msag that have bee culture-war talkg pots agast queer rights — like homosexualy is not a “valid alternative liftyle” and “genr inty is termed by blogil sex and not by one’s self-perceptn.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted.