There’s no ‘gay gene,’ but geics are lked to same-sex behavr, new study says - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• WHAT DO THE NEW ‘GAY GEN’ TELL ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
• THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS
• SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• GAYCEL
• GAYCEL
• KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO
• THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Pri holds a special place the hearts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) dividuals as a time to celebrate the progrs we have ma, and advote for the advanc yet to e.

Here, I highlight ways which the scientific muny has had a ccial role drivg this progrs, and provi a personal perspective on the importance of beg open and proud of my inty as a gay cell blogist. Scientific rearch has been ccial for unrstandg and unterg the effects of homophobia, transphobia and other forms of anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimatn on dividual and public health. In the mid-twentieth century, domant nservative forc opposed the exprsn of non-cisgenr and non-heterosexual inti, and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) baselsly and whout medil evince classified homosexualy as a mental disorr1.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Durg the tim, science also ma semal ntributns toward better unrstandg the nature of homosexualy.

Pneerg scientific studi — cludg those by Aled Ksey and Evelyn Hooker — provid key evince on the prevalence of same-sex sexual behavurs, and showed that dividuals that intify as homosexual or heterosexual do not exhib distct psychologi1. Efforts to unrstand the disease wrongly referred to by some at the time as “gay ncer” were hred by the prejudic triggered by a adly fectn that uld be sexually transmted and emerge wh a disproportnate prevalence the LGBTQIA+ muny.

The momentum for civil rights was buildg toward key legal and polil victori for the marriage equaly movement, supported, part, by ongog social scientific studi that dited that children wh same-sex and gay parents experience siar out4, 5.

WHAT DO THE NEW ‘GAY GEN’ TELL ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN?

I drew spiratn om a variety of role mols, and began the slow, sometim paful, but ultimately eeg procs of tellg my clost iends and fay that I am a gay man.

I was lucky to have the privilege of g to terms wh my inty surround by muni that were largely welg and my graduate studi the 2000s, even a liberal universy environment, I remember seeg relatively few openly gay scientists, pecially at the faculty level. I am extraordarily grateful to have found labs, lleagu and prcipal vtigators who were proud to support all the aspects of my, as a faculty member myself, I am experiencg how much beg openly gay n ntribute to my teachg and mentorg, although I still get a ltle nervo when I say out loud to stunts.

In the Uned Stat, the promence of anti-racism monstratns has provid further remrs that homophobia and transphobia be wh systemic racism to disproportnately impact people of lour who intify as LGBTQIA+.

THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS

Sce my own g out, I have personally been amazed by the creasg numbers of openly gay scientists across reer stag whom I enunter nearly every classroom or profsnal event.

Unfiveable StillIn Marlén Viñayo's documentary 'Unfivable', Geovany and his partner live wh other gay former gang members a cell El Salvador's San Francis Gotera prison.

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life.

SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’

”In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia. The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as soon as Martez left the prison and got his r, he lled Marlén Viñayo, 33, a Spanish director livg El Salvador, to tell her what he’d seen. 8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016.

Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.

Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife. “How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard.

)Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns. ” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.

The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. ) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns. June is Pri Month, which memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, when patrons of a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, New York Cy fought back agast a police raid.

GAYCEL

It was an flectn pot the gay liberatn movement. S., the vast majory of whom at the time were gay men.

One branch of ACT UP lled the Science Club was head by Mark Harrgton, an HIV-posive gay man.

GAYCEL

Have you ever met a "Gaycel". That got me thkg about whether the "cel" phenomenon was prent wh the gay muny. I have heard the term "gaycel" thrown out ually jt, but I am not aware of any "gaycel" muni or webs.

KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO

I am not sure if there are gay sectns of current "cel" webs. Have any of you n to gay men who you might nsir a "gaycel? " What about him and his personaly and way of beg leads you to believe he is a "gaycel?

THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS

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SAN DIEGO, CA, July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - A gay man and a straight man start a cell phone pany. "Our tent is to channel signifint profs back to groups supportg the health, safety and equaly of the global LGBTQ muny, " said Patrick Adams, openly gay CEO of PRIDE Wirels. Rapidly climbg the rporate ladr and takg his first executive role, Adams was fired om his job for beg gay.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

While PRIDE Wirels ctomers will benef om the same phon and 4G/LTE works, signifint service plan savgs, and disunts through s als membership program, they will also have the add benef of fabulo "gay" ctomer service. Ctomers n also enjoy a unique savgs & als club, while receivg fabulo "gay" ctomer service. Didn’t we already know there were “gay gen”?

We have known for s that sexual orientatn is partly herable men, thanks to studi of fai which some people are straight and some people are gay.

In 1993, geic variatns a regn on the X chromosome men were lked to whether they were heterosexual or homosexual, and 1995, a regn on chromosome 8 was intified. Both fdgs were nfirmed a study of gay and straight brothers 2014. Alan Sanrs at North Shore Universy, Illois, and his team ppoted the gen by parg DNA om 1077 gay and 1231 straight men.