Why Are There Gay Men? | Male Homosexualy | Live Science

Contents:

• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• "GAY GENE" SURVIVED EVOLUTN AS IT IS CARRIED BY MOTHERS WHO HAVE MORE CHILDREN, STUDY
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• ARE HIGHLY FERTILE WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO HAVE GAY SONS?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• IS HE GAY? OVULATG WOMEN CAN TELL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

What basic fact about homosexualy do you, your parents, your lol evangelil prit, and your science teacher most likely agree about?

"GAY GENE" SURVIVED EVOLUTN AS IT IS CARRIED BY MOTHERS WHO HAVE MORE CHILDREN, STUDY

Try this one: Homosexuals don't reproduce. The argument dat om antiquy and has nstuted one of the rnerston of Wtern sexual morals that se homosexualy as "agast nature.

And until today the scientific muny has operated wh the same basic certaty the background: Homosexualy is trsilly sterile. Bee homosexuals don't "spread their gen" and should have therefore been elimated durg the evolutnary procs, they nstute an evolutnary anomaly.

Anthropologil data are astonishgly nsistent: For the most part, homosexual relatnships have been perfectly patible wh the reproductive duty. Transgenr homosexuals, who were attributed or granted the right to adopt the oppose or a third genr, were the only exceptns to this le. Remember that Osr Wil had two the end, the ncept of the "barren homosexual" only appli to recent generatns.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

After WWII and particularly sce the sexual revolutn the 1970s, a new -- morn -- type of homosexual relatnships, which no longer mand a difference stat between partners (whether age, genr, or class), beme the new relatnal standard. One of gay inty's novelti is to champn an exclive tert same-sex partners.

Yet, only three s later, gays are now fightg for their right to marry and the regnn of their fai. Gay upl have employed var strategi to have children on their own, such as artificial sematn and the hirg of a surrogate mother.

Left to them, many homosexuals today would create parental relatnships outsi of their romantic and/or maral bond to a same-sex partner. By and large anthropologil and historil data, cludg the most recent on, nfirm that homosexuals procreate. The ia that homosexual sex preclus reproductn go hand--hand wh the ia that heterosexual sex is "always" about the possibily of procreatn.

ARE HIGHLY FERTILE WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO HAVE GAY SONS?

Fet about the ty actn of homosexuals that exhib zero tert procreatg; most women passed the age of 50 -- about 20 to 25 percent of the female populatn -- nnot reproduce. Why has our culture been so outraged by homosexual behavr? From a pro-homosexual perspective, the rponse to this issue has monly been that people are eher ignorant or ill-tentned.

The list of brilliant thkers -- whether philosopher, theologian, or scientist, who have cricized and more often than not nmned homosexual behavr throughout history -- monstrat how much homophobia is not a matter of ignorance or malevolence (even though ignorance and malevolence n and have patently amplified ) are then left wh a new, possibly greater, mystery to solve: Why do human begs see some thgs as te -- no matter what --a nd rema totally bld to others?

It is, I believe, only by addrsg those qutns first that we will be able to unrstand the history of homosexualy and the reasons of s tegratn or rejectn human societi, a problem that has baffled scholars for s now. In other words, I argue that there is a sign to the fact that we nnot make sense of homosexualy. While female sexualy appears to be more fluid, rearch suggts that male gayns is an born, unalterable, strongly geilly fluenced tra.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all? Put differently, why haven't gay man gen driven themselv extct?

IS HE GAY? OVULATG WOMEN CAN TELL

For several years, studi led by Andrea Camper Ciani at the Universy of Padova Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal nts of gay men tend to have signifintly more offsprg than the maternal relativ of straight men. The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu.

Mal her only one X chromosome — the one om their mother — and if clus the gene that promot gayns mal and fecundy femal, he is likely to be gay while his mom and her female relativ are likely to have lots of kids. If a dghter hers that same X-lked gene, she herself may not be gay, but she n pass on to her sons. [Why Are There Gay Women?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

]But how might the "gay man gene" make femal more reproductively succsful? Prevly, the Italian rearchers suggted that the "gay man gene" might simply crease androphilia, or attractn to men, thereby makg the mal who posss the gene homosexual and the femal who posss more promiscuo.

But after vtigatg the characteristics of 161 female maternal relativ of homosexual and heterosexual men, the rearchers have adjted their hypothis.