There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• BEG GAY AND NOFAP
• THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
• DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
• MEET THE GAYBROS

BEG GAY AND NOFAP

Anyway, the sports buffs here probably heard Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbard e the phrase "no homo" durg a post-game prs nference earlier tonight after they feated the Miami Heat. (which isn't always necsary to nmn homophobia, jt like you don't have to be Jewish to nmn anti-Semism) So, I thought I'd ask r/LGBT stead of jt assumg my relatively few token gay iends speak for the entire LGBT muny. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT

Speakg as a 22 year-old gay man, I n nfirm that makg through sendary school as a gay guy often sucks, and there are some difficulti that you won't be able to fd a way around. However, llege I found gay men who were all different lors of the rabow and a group of non-queer iends who actually took an tert gay issu and an tert me far beyond stereotyp. I'm often the only queer person a room, I still enunter people wh homophobic views that they n't even nceive are any way discrimatory, and some days I feel like I'm livg a world that don't unrstand or value me.

Take time to foc on your profsnal aspiratns, fd hobbi that you really enjoy, do thgs to treat yourself every once a while, take time to exercise and do what you need to do to feel good about your appearance for no one's sake but your own, and know that when you do face those difficulti associated wh beg gay, you will e out wh experience, self-awarens, and nfince that most of the populatn has to fd some other path toward. Majory of heterosexuals assume that bee you're gay you will jt tomatilly be terted and click wh any other gay person that they throw at you or your way.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

Thankfully, I haven't been subject to much overt homophobia over the years, but get a b tirg hearg subtle remrs that we are a very heteronormative world.

But ually who is gay don't have this hope, bee he often enunters many obstacl: maybe he don't want to let people know he is homosexual, bee the environment where he liv he might be accepted wh difficulty (the real trouble for a gay is not to accept himself, for he knows he's born wh this natural stct or disposn, and was not his choice, but beg accepted by society), or simply bee he feels unfortable to say . ), but classmat accepted him serenely as he was, while a boy who was a technil school (almost exclively male) was simply spected of homosexualy by classmat bee he did not look tough enough, and was spised and teased hardly. When I was young, I was told the whole world was divid to heterosexual men and heterosexual women, bar a small number of unfortunate ‘homosexuals’ of both genrs and possibly an even smaller number a third tegory, ‘bisexuals’, who ‘swung both ways’; pl, fally, a ty band of wretched creatur who were physilly not que one thg or the other.

NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY

Ksey diststed btal tegorisatn but, wishg to unt, nstcted what me close to a slidg sle ntag seven gradatns between exclive heterosexualy and exclive homosexualy.

DAD ACCINTALLY DISVERS HIS TEENAGE SON IS GAY, CONSULTS REDD ON HOW TO RPOND

He found that almost half his male terviewe had reacted sexually to both genrs; more than a third had had a homosexual enunter; and more than one ten reported roughly equally strong sexual rpons to both men and women. All all, I’ve probably slept wh as many straight men as self–intifyg gay or bisexual on: I doubt most were lyg, and some s have reason to know they weren’t. In what pass for the gay ‘muny’, there’s somethg of a taboo about admtg, even to ourselv, that que a few of (not me) uld, wh a ltle axg and self-disciple, be ‘straight’.

There exist strong reasons for this taboo among gays: first, ‘we n’t help ’ was absolutely central to our early pch for equaly, and we need to believe . So when you are sayg "foc on the more submissive aspects of " and referencg the prev post where someone suggted this was more about beg submissive than about beg gay, n you elaborate on that?

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Well, the real rough world homosexualy is so much not a bygone matter of subject that some people actually ☝️ pack their ? to go ? a bunch of random people ? and themselv ? jt to prove that pot. I'd say some may be gay strictly by nature, but lookg at how different level of gayns seems to be different untri and ci, looks to me like culture matters a lot. A large percent of people has a negative attu to through an associatn of wh the "Gay Pri" ✊ movement, rather than some non-shamg non-homophobic mpaign.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

So that symbol bo was such a strong trigger that turned hors of people to blame Apple and the rt of emoji signer pani for allegedly makg an anti gay emoji. Meanwhile, if you're planng to repost anti gay pri flag yourself you have to unrstand that some people view this as beg an aggrsn agast them and dislikg of them. Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai.

“As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother. The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum. “[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said.

“There is no ‘gay gene’, ” says lead study thor Andrea Ganna, a geicist at the Broad Instute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge, and his lleagu also ed the analysis to timate that up to 25% of sexual behavur n be explaed by geics, wh the rt fluenced by environmental and cultural factors — a figure siar to the fdgs of smaller studi.

10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE

Former Print Barack Obama released a lengthy statement about how his life was shaped by books wrten by gay and transgenr Democrat print ma the admissn a letter to librarians Monday morng.

And librarians are on the ont l, fightg every day to make the wist possible range of viewpots, opns, and… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 17, 2023Natnal rad host Todd Starn summed up Obama’s letter a tweet:“Obama: Your children should have accs to gay porn their school librari, ” Starn Your children should have accs to gay porn their school librari. Another suggted the dad let his son "e to you wh this, " suggtg t he meantime, he start beg discretely supportive of LGBT matters, by "[makg] a posive remark when gay marriage is discsed on tv, pliment(ig) a show for their clivens of LGBT characters, etc.

In an update posted to Redd a few days later, he explaed that he "started off wh talkg about general media wh [his son], " like "how awome was that Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) me out as beg gay... But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

MEET THE GAYBROS

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip. Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.