At the end of last year, the Uned Stat Congrs voted to enshre protectns for gay upl as part of s Rpect for Marriage Act. This reprents a rapid turnaround on what was a polil third rail jt a ago. Some cred this change to Amerin society’s shift s unrstandg of queerns as…
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- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
- GAY PRI
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
* born this gay event *
At the end of last year, the Uned Stat Congrs voted to enshre protectns for gay upl as part of s Rpect for Marriage Act.
In fact, 2015 was both the first year a majory of Amerins believed people are born queer as well as the year the SCOTUS cisn on Obergefell v Hodg guaranteed gay upl the right to marriage. ” The rultg disurse seems to have rved out two roughly fed mps: queer people and alli pog born-this-way vers homophob who believe that people choose to be gay.
For starters, are people born gay? In the wake of born-this-way’s explosn, many were obssed wh the possibily of disverg the “gay gene”—the not-so-subtle name for a hypothetil sexualy-termg gene.
ARE WE BORN GAY?
Absurd name asi, the logic appeared sound: If people are born gay, we should be able to fd out why. Sadly, acrdg to a study om the Universy of Tennsee, the belief that queer people are born-that-way is roughly the same for both homophob and alli.
But are people really born gay? It’s not pletely known why someone might be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual. You also n’t “turn” a person gay.
For example, exposg a boy to toys tradnally ma for girls, such as dolls, won’t e him to be gay. Many people say that they knew they were lbian, gay, or bisexual even before puberty. ” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other.
GAY PRI
LGBTQ stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng. Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual). Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay.
5% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.
In a recent Guardian article, Simon Copland argued that is very unlikely people are born gay (or prumably any other sexual orientatn).
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
Fdg evince for a blogil basis should not sre or unrme gay, lbian and bisexual (LGB) rights (the studi I refer to do not clu transgenred dividuals, so I’ll nfe my ments to lbian, gay and bisexual people).
Evince om pennt rearch groups who studied tws shows that geic factors expla about 25-30% of the differenc between people sexual orientatn (heterosexual, gay, lbian, and bisexual). Tw studi are a first look to the geics of a tra and tell that there are such thgs as “gen for sexual orientatn” (I hate the phrase “gay gene”).
Three gene fdg studi showed that gay brothers share geic markers on the X chromosome; the most recent study also found shared markers on chromosome 8. For example, plex psychologil tras have many al gen (not simply “a gay gene”). Perhaps this is due to the stereotype that female sexualy is “too plex” or that lbians are rarer than gay are far om the whole story.