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

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE ORIG OF THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG AND ITS MEANG
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY-LSAC’S LAW
• WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.

Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.

”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay.

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

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. Whether science n ultimately prove the blogy of beg gay or not, 's important to support all adults their choic no matter how they intify.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

THE ORIG OF THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG AND ITS MEANG

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Rapper Central Cee has clarified what his most viral lyric actually means, after sparked nfn whether he was implyg he was homophobic or not.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

They asked more than 477, 000 participants whether they had ever had sex wh someone of the same sex, and also qutns about sexual fantasi and the gree to which they intified as gay or straight. “A lot of people want to unrstand the blogy of homosexualy, and science has lagged behd that human tert, ” says William Rice, an evolutnary geicist at the Universy of California, Santa Barbara, who also was not volved the work.

The (cis, whe) gay man has always been at the centre of pri movements, but as people opened their mds to clu all LGBTQ+ inti the movement, the rabow flag creasgly solidified s posn as one that reprents the entire LGBTQ+ time, mand grew for a flag that specifilly reprents gay men. This 5-loured (and sometim 7-loured) gay men pri flag was signed  2019 by Tumblr er @gayflagblog, but wasn’t whout ntroversy. Meang behd the lours:Turquoise to green lours reprent muny, healg, and joyWhe reprents genr nonnformg, non-bary, and transgenr folksBlue to purple lours reprent pure love, fortu, and diversyWhile the gay men’s pri flag is another lser known pri flag.

It featur different shas of green, blue and morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton.

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

That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr updated flag is clive of a much wi ranger of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men. That versn was problematic bee ed lors that were stereotypil of the genr updated flag is clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg Reason a Flag is Need In The First PlaceThe rabow flag has always been the most popular flag for gay men to signify gay-ns and still is, even though this flag is gag some populary. Bee of the centrg of (cis, whe, rich) gay men general, due to our world’s generally patriarchal morn stcture, society’s image of the LGBT+ muny, the rabow flag om 1978 and s new 6 stripe form has often been mistakenly attributed to gay men particular, spe the rabow flag beg a liberately clive flag that clus all LGBT+ people.

So, for a while, gay men and lbians didn’t have popular, wily ed flags for our specific inti as gay men and lbians, though more flags started to be popularised for specific inti, such as bisexual, transgenr and asexual while prev lbian and gay male flags hadn’t achieved wispread e. ‘‘ was ma by a *sert bad adjective here* person’‘A lot of people seem to believe that the @gayflagblog flag was ‘’ma by a tscum/misogynist/[sert bad active here’]’. @gayflagblog is an anonymo acunt that do not talk about issu that are not to do wh the flag, and specifilly has ma the flag clive of all gay men, which mak the accatns factually Flag Blog: Stripe meangs were spired by my rearch of LGBT history, my and others experienc as gay men, and the meangs on Gilbert Baker’s origal flag (which I love arly and hold close to my heart).

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS, EXPLAED

Vcian is one of multiple terms ed to scribe gay men or men-aligned dividuals, meang a man, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividual who is attracted to men, man-aligned or mascule-aligned dividuals.

It is one of the most wily regnized alternativ to the term “gay men” and is often ed as the mascule equivalent of lbian (referrg to exclive attractn). It should be noted that not all non-bary dividuals feel fortable beg clud unr vcian attractn, and alternate labels such as toric or uranic are sometim term “gay” is ed as an adjective to scribe homosexualy, and is also often ed by the entire LGBT muny general. Some dividuals also argue that “gay” should jt mean homosexual men all together, due to the fact that gay women are referred to as lbian.

Other dividuals simply refer to homosexual men as “gay men” TermsAlthough vcian is generally the most monly seen term, many other proposed terms for gay men exist. Dcrib both gay men and gay (NBLM) non-bary Named after Florence, the birthplace of Leonardo Da Vci, who is the namake of vcian.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

[8] The term was scribed as an alternative for achillean (implyg non-exclive attractn), but the creator also scribed the term as beg a word for gay men[9] (implyg exclive attractn). Some dividuals e as another word for gay men (exclive attractn) are many flags that reprent gay men or the mid-2010s, gay activist Valent Belyaev posted his versn of the gay man flag an iative group VKontakte to bat gayphobia (homophobia agast men)[10] and on Tumblr. [12][13] This flag nsists of shas of azure and blue, symboliz the diversy of the gay muny and is an analog of the tradnal lbian flag, nsistg of shas of rose and origal vcian flag was ma by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pri-lor-schem Tumblr blog 2017.

[16]Later 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prr versn that addrsed the issu wh the old one by addg symbolic and historil meangs to each lor and stripe as well as allowg those the muny to offer put and propose their own top three strip reprent muny, healg, and joy. This flag is based on all the other flags for gay male subcultur:On the top, there’s a pk stripe which is seen on the twk flag + the crown the drag flag. On this flag, reprents peace and after all that, they all e together to form a pastel rabow, referencg how the rabow flag ed to be the go-to for gay men, as well as how pastel/iriscence and unirns are often ed as symbols for the muny.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself.

THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY

Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty. 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.

GAY-LSAC’S LAW

“We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018. 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.

Crics, who ll the measur Florida’s “don’t say gay” bills, argue the measur are an attempt to weaponize the ia of parental rights to margalize LGBTQ part of the bills generatg the most bate is short: jt 31 words.

WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY

Carlos Guillermo Smh, D-Orlando, one of the few openly gay members of the Florida Legislature, noted the relevant sectn wh an important njunctn: or.

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.