Pri holds a special place the hearts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) dividuals as a time to celebrate the progrs we have ma, and advote for the advanc yet to e. Here, I highlight ways which the scientific muny has had a ccial role drivg this progrs, and provi a personal perspective on the importance of beg open and proud of my inty as a gay cell blogist.
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
Actor Samuel L. Jackson had no clue his new character the upg movie adaptatn of Stephen Kg's Cell is gay. * cell 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. 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).
SAMUEL L. JACKSON UNAWARE CELL CHARACTER IS GAY
Actor Samuel L. 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... * cell is gay *
There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian. 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.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
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“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.
INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
Marc Almond the inic gay sger-songwrer and mician synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell an terview wh The Stland Herald talks about his reer… * cell is gay *
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. 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.
BORN THIS WAY? SOCIETY, SEXUALY AND THE SEARCH FOR THE 'GAY GENE'
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. Dpe the associatns, the thors say that the geic siari still nnot show whether a given dividual is gay. “It’s the end of the ’gay gene, ’” says Eric Vila, a geicist at Children’s Natnal Health System Washgton, D.
“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 study will not be the last word on the vexg qutn of what homosexualy, however. Natnal Cancer Instute and his lleagu published a paper suggtg that an area on the X chromosome lled Xq28 uld nta a “gay gene.
His study, which analysed the genom of 40 pairs of gay brothers, looked exclively at people who intified as homosexual. June is Pri Month, which memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, when patrons of a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, New York Cy fought back agast a police raid.
SOFT CELL’S MARC ALMOND: ‘I HATE THE LGBT THG. THERE’S NO GAY MUNY ANYMORE’
It was an flectn pot the gay liberatn movement. S., the vast majory of whom at the time were gay men.