Is He Gay? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• HE-MAN’S FIVE GAYT ADVENTUR
• DID HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE REVEAL A MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY?
• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE
• HE-MAN UN íNO GAY Y OTROS DATOS L PERSONAJE QUE QUIZá NO NOZS
• IS HE GAY?

HE-MAN’S FIVE GAYT ADVENTUR

As a gay man himself, Sheridan also brgs the queer lens to the material, brgg the existg LGBTQ them that have ma He-Man somethg of a gay in (not to mentn a viral sensatn) to the fore.

We sat down wh David & Sheridan to discs the new show, He-Man’s ironic, if endurg, gay fanbase, and fulfillg their lifelong dream to brg a more adult tone to the seri.

Superman isn’t gay. When to the classic Filmatn televisn seri, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, ’s not much of a stretch to fd homoerotic subtext s ham-fisted dialogue and hyper-mascule, btish-ns.

DID HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE REVEAL A MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY?

However, there are tim the sci-fi hero’s qut to fight the forc of evil wh his “fabulo secret powers” that seems to move beyond mere advertent sexual suggtn and right to “oh, that’s jt gay” terrory. Here are five of He-Man’s gayt moments.

For gay men that grew the 1980s and 1990s, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was a popular rtoon. For many of , we wanted to be like He-Man, and more importantly, for some of , seeg He-Man prompted our gay awakengs. Did He-Man & the Masters of the Universe Reveal a Major Character Is Gay?

Season 2 of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe may have ma a massive statement for equaly and reprentatn by makg a major character gay.

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

Intertgly, Season 2 of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe may have ma s own stand for equaly and reprentatn by makg a major character gay. Admtedly, if Dunn is ed gay, the show should have leaned to . I’ve llected some of my favore piec after the jump… and by favore, I mean most homoerotic.

While female sexualy appears to be more fluid, rearch suggts that male gayns is an born, unalterable, strongly geilly fluenced tra.

But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all? Put differently, why haven't gay man gen driven themselv extct? For several years, studi led by Andrea Camper Ciani at the Universy of Padova Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal nts of gay men tend to have signifintly more offsprg than the maternal relativ of straight men.

HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE

The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ.

Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu. Mal her only one X chromosome — the one om their mother — and if clus the gene that promot gayns mal and fecundy femal, he is likely to be gay while his mom and her female relativ are likely to have lots of kids.

If a dghter hers that same X-lked gene, she herself may not be gay, but she n pass on to her sons. [Why Are There Gay Women?

HE-MAN UN íNO GAY Y OTROS DATOS L PERSONAJE QUE QUIZá NO NOZS

]But how might the "gay man gene" make femal more reproductively succsful?

Prevly, the Italian rearchers suggted that the "gay man gene" might simply crease androphilia, or attractn to men, thereby makg the mal who posss the gene homosexual and the femal who posss more promiscuo.

IS HE GAY?

But after vtigatg the characteristics of 161 female maternal relativ of homosexual and heterosexual men, the rearchers have adjted their hypothis. Rather than makg women more attracted to men, the "gay man gene" appears to make the women more attractive to men.

The androphilic pattern that we found is about femal who crease their reproductive value to attract the bt mal, " Camper Ciani told Life's Ltle out, the moms and nts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and nts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displayg fewer gynelogil disorrs or plitns durg pregnancy; they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed; and they have fewer fay problems and social anxieti. "It is que possible that there are several fluenc on formg a homosexual orientatn, " said Gelf Rieger, a sexual orientatn rearcher at Cornell Universy.

But as for why geic factors would exist that make men gay, appears that the gen make women, as well as gay men, allurg to other men. You didn’t want to be gay on tv.