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Okay, I've seen many threads on EC about parents who are gay and also have a child that has me out to them as gay. I've also seen teens on here wh...

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NEW STUDY FDS GEICS INFLUENCE LGBTQ SEXUALY, BUT STILL NO 'GAY GENE'

* does being gay run in the family *

If that’s te, uldn’t patterns of homosexualy n fai? Y, a growg body of knowledge is ditg that homosexualy n n fai, although this often has been hidn many s and not discsed openly. Acrdg to thors Barbara and Allan Pease, there is a greater chance of a male beg gay if he has brothers, uncl, s, or parents (more on the mother’s si) who are also gay.

A iend of me recently disvered—to his great surprise—that his mother was lbian and that two maternal s are gay (one male and one female) along wh a paternal uncle. So his se, homosexualy shows up on both sis of his fay at least two generatns.

DO GAY N  FAI?

Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * does being gay run in the family *

Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock Universy Ontar Canada reported that the risk of beg gay creas wh the number of olr brothers.

A 1995 news release om Stanford Universy dited that the probabily that the brother of a gay man is gay is about four tim higher than normal. However, male homosexualy and lbianism tend to n different fai: sisters wh gay brothers are not more likely than normal to be lbian. A 1993 study that traced the pedigree of pairs of gay brothers found that homosexualy tends to n on the maternal si of the fay tree: the brothers had a higher than average number of maternal nephews and uncl who are gay.

Scientists, led by Dean Hamer, an Aids rearcher at the US Natnal Cancer Instute, studied the fay histori of 114 gay mal and found that 13. 5 percent of the gay men's brothers were also homosexual, pared wh 2 percent the general populatn. They also found that maternal uncl and maternal male s were more likely to be homosexual.

WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY: NEW STUDY CLAIMS TRA IS PASSED OM MOTHERS TO SONS AND OM FATHERS TO DGHTERS

A new study suggts that beg gay may have geic unrpngs among certa men—pecially those who have olr brothers. * does being gay run in the family *

In some of the fai, gay relativ uld be traced back three generatns.

We prent an overview of behavral geics rearch on homosexual and heterosexual orientatn. Fay, tw, and adoptee studi dite that homosexualy and th heterosexualy n fai.

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

We note observatns of homosexual behavr animal speci, but the analogy to human sexual orientatn is unclear. We discs the reproductive disadvantage of a homosexual orientatn and prent possible mechanisms that uld mata a balanced polymorphism human populatns. No 'gay gene': Massive study hom on geic basis of human sexualy.

Heterosexual Male Carriers Could Expla Persistence of Homosexualy Men: Individual-Based Simulatns of an X-Lked Inherance Mol. A crique of the possibily of geic herance of homosexual orientatn. J Homosex.

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

Homosexual orientatn tws: a report on 61 pairs and three triplet sets. Is homosexualy faial?

CHICAGO (AP) The largt study of s kd found new evince that gen ntribute to same-sex sexual behavr, but echo rearch that says there are no specific gen that make people gay. Adults intified five geic variants not prevly lked wh gay or lbian sexualy.

THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS

Importantly, most participants were asked about equency of same-sex sexual behavr but not if they self-intified as gay or lbian.

”Former Natnal Instut of Health geicist Dean Hamer said the study nfirms “that sexualy is plex and there are a lot of gen volved, ” but isn’t really about gay people. “Havg jt a sgle same sex experience is pletely different than actually beg gay or lbian, ” Hamer said.

DO HAVG OLR BROTHERS INCREASE MEN’S CHANC OF BEG GAY? HERE’S WHAT THE STUDI SAY

His rearch the 1990s lked a marker on the X chromosome wh male homosexualy. There’s a streak of gayns nng through at least three generatns of my father’s fay. Of the twelve my grandfather’s generatn, there were two who were possibly gay, though of urse no one ever talked about , so there’s no way be certa.

So much for the proverbial gay 10%. And this nnectedns has allowed me to see my beg gay as somethg much larger than me.

A 'GAY GENE'? IT'S PLITED, ACRDG TO NEW REARCH ON SAME-SEX BEHAVR

Of the twenty or so s and other relatns I’ve known om my mother’s si, no one I’m aware of was or is gay. ” A lot of people of my parents’ generatn, and some my own, have agonized about this, but they didn’t do anythg to make their children gay. Or your fay may be even larger than me, you know every sgle one of them, and no one among them is gay … at least no one who’s out.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* DOES BEING GAY RUN IN THE FAMILY

A 'gay gene'? It's plited, acrdg to new rearch on same-sex behavr.

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