Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, study suggts

Contents:

• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

In a new terview wh Brish Vogue, the tws spoke ndidly about their difficult childhoods growg up poor and gay Canada the ’60s and ’70s. In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers.

"In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study.

"To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia).

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java.