Born this way? Society, sexualy and the search for the 'gay gene' | Geics | The Guardian

Contents:

• SAMUEL L. JACKSON UNAWARE CELL CHARACTER IS GAY
• SAMUEL L. JACKSON UNAWARE CELL CHARACTER IS GAY
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
• BORN THIS WAY? SOCIETY, SEXUALY AND THE SEARCH FOR THE 'GAY GENE'
• SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’

SAMUEL L. JACKSON UNAWARE CELL CHARACTER IS GAY

Jackson had no clue his new character the upg movie adaptatn of Stephen Kg’s Cell is gay.

The Pulp Fictn in will reteam wh his 1408 -star John Cack to brg the apolyptic thriller, about a vis spread via a cell phone pulse, to the big screen, but Jackson was ught off-guard when qutned about playg fictnal homosexual engeer and former soldier Tom McCourt. Is that character gay the book? It is not yet known if director Tod Williams will keep the character te to the novel, but if he do, will be Jackson’s first time portrayg a gay man.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON UNAWARE CELL CHARACTER IS GAY

Jackson had no clue his new character the upg movie adaptatn of Stephen Kg's Cell is Pulp Fictn in will reteam wh his 1408 -star John Cack to brg the apolyptic thriller, about a vis spread via a cell phone pulse, to the big screen, but Jackson was ught off-guard when qutned about playg fictnal homosexual engeer and former soldier Tom MCCourt.

"It is not yet known if director Tod Williams will keep the character te to the novel, but if he do, will be Jackson's first time portrayg a gay film is due to beg productn January (14). There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian.

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

The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene.

In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual.

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.

INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL

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

Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene.

BORN THIS WAY? SOCIETY, SEXUALY AND THE SEARCH FOR THE 'GAY GENE'

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.

In other words, tri to judge if a person leans gay, straight or bisexual. “[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.

SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’

A clear geic lk would suggt that gay people are “born this way, ” as opposed to havg ma a liftyle choice. Yet some fear that such a fdg uld be mised “cure” homosexualy, and most rearch teams have shied away om tacklg the topic. 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.