Gay geics | BBC Science Foc Magaze

Contents:

• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• A PROBABILY SAMPLE OF GAY MAL
• WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF BEG GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• GAY GEICS
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• SABRA IS A SCIENTIST GIVG TTIMONY URT ON THE BLOGIL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WH SEXUAL ORIENTATN. AMONG OTHER THGS, SABRA TTIFI ABOUT REARCH SHOWG THAT THE PROBABILY OF A BOY BEG BORN GAY CREAS IF HE HAS ONE OR MORE OLR ________ AND IS ________. GROUP OF ANSWER CHOIC
• IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
• IS BISEXUALY A PERSON’S GEICS, LIKE BEG GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

” If homosexuals n nvce people that they make up a much larger portn of the populatn than they actually reprent, they are much more likely to garner support for their agenda. ” Ksey also claimed that 4% of all mal are exclively homosexual throughout their entire liv and alleged that an credible 37% of men have had homosexual experienc durg their liv.

4 The rults are not only the basis of the homosexual-rights “ten percent” myth, but also serve as a rnerstone of the prehensive sex tn class tght the Wtern world today. 11 Sce studi show that the actual percentage of homosexuals the general populatn is om 1 – 2%, this factor alone was enough to guarantee that Ksey would get the “ten percent” figure he sired.

A PROBABILY SAMPLE OF GAY MAL

Reisman and Eichel nclud that the actual percentage of male homosexuals the Uned Stat is 1 – 2%, a figure strongly nfirmed by a dozen large studi which also show that only 3. 20 This means that, over time, the number of adults who intify as lbian, homosexual or bisexual has held approximately nstant over the past quarter-century. Rearchers are focg much more attentn to the sexual practic of teenagers as homophile groups like GLAAD, PFLAG and GLSEN have ee accs to peddle their propaganda our schools.

[23] Gareth Kirkby, Managg Edor of the Vanuver-based homosexual newspaper, Xtra Wt, acknowledged this an edorial entled, “No Need to Lie, ” published the Augt 20, 1998 issue. Increasg numbers of populatn-based surveys the Uned Stat and across the world clu qutns that allow for an timate of the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. In measurg sexual orientatn, lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals may be intified strictly based on their self-inty or may be possible to nsir same-sex sexual behavr or sexual attractn.

While the surveys show a fairly wi variatn the overall percentage of adults who intify as LGB, the proportn who intify as lbian/gay vers bisexual is somewhat more nsistent (see Figure 2). The Natnal Survey of Fay Growth found rults that were sentially the oppose of the UK survey wh only 38% intifyg as lbian or gay pared to 62% intifyg as bisexual. The Natnal Survey of Sexual Health and Behavr and the Atralian Longudal Study of Health and Relatnships both found a majory of rponnts (55% and 59%, rpectively) intifyg as surveys show even greater nsistency differenc between men and women associated wh lbian/gay vers bisexual inty.

WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF BEG GAY?

How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal. Female Japane maqu will even pete tersexually wh mal for exclive accs to female sexual ’s what we don’t know: What, specifilly, someone to bee gay, straight, or somethg between.

Part of the explanatn is geic, but bee most intil tws of gay people are straight, heredy don’t expla “why” qutn is important bee “there is a strong rrelatn between beliefs about the origs of sexual orientatn and tolerance of non-heterosexualy, ” acrdg to the report thors, who are om seven universi spanng the globe. (When Atlantic ntributor Chandler Burr proposed his 1996 book, A Separate Creatn, that people are born gay, Southern Baptists lled to boytt Disney films and parks prott agast the publisher, Disney subsidiary Hypern.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

) It shouldn’t matter whether people “choose” to be gay, but polilly, do—at least for of the most nsistent environmental explanatns for homosexualy is lled the “aternal birth orr effect. Average prevalence 2013 (Sav-Williams and Vrangalova)Acrdg to the report, Blanchard now plans to tt mothers of gay and straight men for the prence of the antibodi.

But gaps will rema, such as why some firstborn sons are gay, why some intil tws of gay sons are straight, and why women are gay, to name jt a review-paper thors do le out one explanatn for homosexualy, however: That tolerance for gay people enurag more people to bee gay.

GAY GEICS

“Homosexual orientatn do not crease equency wh social tolerance, although s exprsn ( behavr and open intifitn) may do so, ” they reasong—that a tolerant society somehow enurag homosexualy to flourish—has been ed to support anti-gay legislatn Uganda, Rsia, and elsewhere.

It is suggted that probabily sampl which do not draw directly or heavily om the gay world for homosexual rponnts obta a broar samplg of those havg homosexual feelgs or behavrs. It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice.

If, on the other hand, you nsir someone to be gay only if they act on their same-sex attractn then beg gay n be nsired a choice pendg on an dividual's behavr.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

“The people participatg our study are terted ntributg to this kd of scientific knowledge and want to unrstand at least part of how they me to be the way they are, ” Sanrs search for ‘gay gen’ go back to 1993, when a US team led by Dr Dean Hamer scribed a regn of DNA loted on the X chromosome lled Xq28.

“Conservative, right-wg people hated bee they felt that was sayg that beg gay is like beg black, that was -born, that would somehow ‘exce’ gay people or give them more rights, ” says Hamer. “On the other hand, gay people hated too bee, at that time, there were fears that the disvery would be mised to abort gay babi and wipe gay people off the face of the Earth.

SABRA IS A SCIENTIST GIVG TTIMONY URT ON THE BLOGIL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WH SEXUAL ORIENTATN. AMONG OTHER THGS, SABRA TTIFI ABOUT REARCH SHOWG THAT THE PROBABILY OF A BOY BEG BORN GAY CREAS IF HE HAS ONE OR MORE OLR ________ AND IS ________. GROUP OF ANSWER CHOIC

”More like thisAlthough the fears rema, recent years the search for ‘gay gen’ has bee more accepted by the gay muny, no small part bee a blogil explanatn would unrme arguments that beg gay is a social or liftyle choice.

IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?

For stance, intil tw brothers (siblgs rived om the same fertilised egg) are more likely to both be gay than aternal tws (tws that velop om separate eggs). The fact that intil tws have the same DNA and aternal tws share 50 per cent suggts that male homosexualy is gay geneIt was sctisg fay tre to see how homosexualy is hered that led Hamer to the disvery of Xq28. Now chief of the gene stcture and regulatn sectn at the US Natnal Cancer Instute, his study revealed a cur pattern: gay men tend to have more gay uncl and gay male s on their mother’s si of the fay than on their father’s.

This is bee mal her their X chromosome om their track down the DNA regn lked to the gay tra, Hamer ed a technique lled ‘lkage mappg’, an approach that lets geicists fd a gene even when they don’t know what do or where ’s loted. A subsequent study 1999 failed to replite Hamer’s rults and other rearchers are sceptil that Xq28 is lked to homosexualy at brothers, immune mothersMany scientists believe that exposure to hormon durg pregnancy heavily fluenc sexualy. Durg pre-natal velopment, for example, the sex ans a foet n regnise ttosterone, which will swch on gen to make om a few superficial differenc (among them penis and rg-fger length – both longer homosexuals), gay and straight men’s bodi appear the same.

IS BISEXUALY A PERSON’S GEICS, LIKE BEG GAY OR STRAIGHT?

The exceptn is homosexual men’s bras, which show remarkable siari to the bras of heterosexual women, suggtg that sexual orientatn pends on the effect hormon have on the velopg the two factors only go so far explag how homosexualy velops.

WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK

”Blanchard believ that homosexualy is “100 per cent blogil”, and timat that the aternal birth orr effect acunts for 15-30 per cent of gay men the populatn. Not only did he replite Blanchard’s birth orr effect, he also tected herance of homosexualy on the mother’s si, supportg Hamer’s ia of a gay gene on chromosome X. After Camper Ciani scribed the observed patterns pedigre of homosexualy – the effects of maternal herance and birth orr – his dghter suggted that he re-check his data to see if the female relativ of gay men had more children on the mother’s si.

“Mothers and nts on the maternal le of homosexuals had around one-fifth to one-fourth more kids than the heterosexual parison, and also than the paternal le. Nippl are another example of a sexually antagonistic tra: they’re need for feedg babi, but velopg nippl men is a waste of the body’s rourc and allow errors leadg to breast search for sexualyEven if Camper Ciani’s fecundy factors are the same as Hamer’s gay gen, don’t tell what the specific gen actually do.

Hamer speculat the gen might boost the size or nnectns om parts of the bra ed reproductn – such as the hypothalam – to make people more Sanrs’s study at NorthShore Universy uld fally reveal the inty and functn of ‘gay gen’. “People we talked to at gay pri ftivals have signer-baby kd of worri – a geic tt employed a pre-natal way, or for employment and surance discrimatn, maybe the ary too. The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.