My mother, and my (gay) self.
Contents:
- DO GAY N FAI?
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
- THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS
- DO GAYNS N YOUR FAY?; OR ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE?DO GAYNS N YOUR FAY?; OR ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE?
DO GAY N FAI?
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... * does 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. Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock Universy Ontar Canada reported that the risk of beg gay creas wh the number of olr brothers.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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 gay run in the family *
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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
* does gay run in the family *
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.
GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
5 percent of the gay men's brothers were also homosexual, pared wh 2 percent the general populatn.
THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS
They also found that maternal uncl and maternal male s were more likely to be homosexual.
In some of the fai, gay relativ uld be traced back three generatns.
He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. 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.
DO GAYNS N YOUR FAY?; OR ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE?DO GAYNS N YOUR FAY?; OR ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE?
So much for the proverbial gay 10%. And this nnectedns has allowed me to see my beg gay as somethg much larger than me.
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.