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Contents:
- HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE
- WHAT THE GAY BRA LOOKS LIKE
- GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE
- CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
- HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE
* gay mindset *
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a eper look this morng at one of the most profound shifts public attus ever rerd - 's the public view of people who are gay and much of this natn's history, of urse, the vast majory of people disapproved of homosexualy so strongly that anyone who me out was guaranteed to face difficulty and even risked danger. MICHAEL ROSENFELD: There's more and more rapid change attus towards gay rights the past 30 years the Uned Stat than there ever has been rerd attus the Uned Stat on any issue.
ROSENFELD: It's the perd when gay and lbian people e out of the closet that straight Amerins' attus about gay rights really start to shift.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)VEDANTAM: A surge of people me out durg the '80s and '90s rponse to a health crisis that was claimg the liv of tens of thoands of WOLFSON: AIDS broke the silence about who gay people are.
WHAT THE GAY BRA LOOKS LIKE
Rearch shows that gay men's bras remble those of straight women * gay mindset *
WOLFSON: If we uld claim the language of marriage, a vobulary of shared valu - love, mment, fay, cln, digny, rpect - that would help non-gay people better unrstand who gay people really are and allow to share equally not only marriage, but everythg.
WOLFSON: The vast majory of judg who are gog to le on the qutn, the vast majory of legislators who have to take actn, the vast majory of voters are, of urse, not gay. ROSENFELD: Attus towards every kd of gay rights has creased a siar way - not que as fast, but a siar way to marriage equaly.
And then, what ltle data we have on trans rights also suggts that there's been a sharp crease appreciatn for the rights of trans I thk one of the thgs that has been shown by the Marriage Equaly Movement is that if you're a gay or lbian, you have more rights than you ed to have. Scientists at the Stockholm Bra Instute Swen report the Proceedgs of the Natnal Amy of Scienc USA that gay men and straight women share siar tras—most notably the size of their bras and the activy of the amygdala—an area of the bra tied to emotn, anxiety and aggrsn.
GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE
Homosexual inti n be scribed as closeted, homosexually self aware, gay/ lbian and non-gay intified. This classifitn privileg the role of self-fn. In g out, gay people tegrate, as bt as they n, dissociated aspects of the self. As gay people mt ci on a daily basis whether to reveal and to whom they will reveal, g out is a procs that never ends. * gay mindset *
Prev studi have examed bra differenc between gay and straight people on the basis of their rpons to var tasks, such as ratg the attractivens of other people.
The rearchers ed MRIs to terme the volume and shap of the bras of 90 volunteers—25 straight and 20 gay members of each sex. They found that the straight men and gay women had asymmetril bras; that is, the cerebm (the largt part of the bra, which is rponsible for thought, sensory procsg, movement and planng) was larger on the right hemisphere of the bra than on the left.
They found that gay men and women, the blood flowed to areas volved fear and anxiety, whereas straight men and lbians tend to flow to pockets lked to aggrsn. Scientists at the Karolska Instute studied bra sns of 90 gay and straight men and women, and found that the size of the two symmetril halv of the bras of gay men more closely rembled those of straight women than they did straight men.
CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
Sns of the bras of gay men the study, however, showed that their hemispher were relatively symmetril, like those of straight women, while the bras of homosexual women were asymmetril like those of straight men.
HOW TO SUPPORT, EMPATHIZE WH, AND AFFIRM LGBTQ+ PEOPLE
The number of nerv nnectg the two sis of the bras of gay men were also more like the number heterosexual women than straight men. Ever sce 1991, when Simon LeVay first documented differenc the hypothalam of gay and straight men, rearchers have been stgglg to unrstand what the differenc to occur.
"The big qutn has always been, if the bras of gay men are different, or femized, as earlier rearch suggts, " says Dr.
Eric Vila, profsor of human geics at Universy of California Los Angel, "then is jt limed to sexual preference or are there other regns that are genr atypil gay mal? For the first time, this study looks like there are regns of the bra not directly volved sexualy that seem to be femized gay mal.