Dutch men are holdg hands solidary wh gay uple | CNN

Contents:

• ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
• DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE
• 342 GAY HOLDG HANDS ILLTRATNS

ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?

But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for. Meanwhile, among the male tws, the bisexual or gay brothers had more "male-typil" hands than the straight on—ntrary to what the rearchers expected—although the difference was not signifint.

"Rearch suggts that our sexualy is termed the womb and is pennt on the amount of male hormone we are exposed to or the way our dividual bodi react to that hormone, wh those exposed to higher levels of ttosterone beg more likely to be bisexual or homosexual, " the thors wrote.

However, is important to strs, that the evince is currently not strong enough to accurately predict whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual by lookg at the rat between their fgers. "Some work has shown that gay men have more "male-typil" rats than straight men; other work has shown the oppose pattern; and still further work has shown no difference at all. As such, is not clear whether there is any real difference the level of ttosterone exposure between straight and gay men or how ttosterone exposure might map on to sexual orientatn differenc.

DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE

When I was younger, I thought that beg gay was somethg terribly wrong.

342 GAY HOLDG HANDS ILLTRATNS

I enuntered homophobia everywhere -- sports, school, the media. I ternalized the homophobia until beme a part of me. I pretend to be straight and passed as such sce I did not exemplify the stereotyp, held by many of those around me, of what meant to be a gay man.