There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• BEG GAY IS LKED TO THE BLOGIL MECHANISMS, SCIENTISTS SAY
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

BEG GAY IS LKED TO THE BLOGIL MECHANISMS, SCIENTISTS SAY

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

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

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FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

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GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

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Acrdg to the Williams Instute, gay upl that have children have an average of figur may not be high enough to sta geic tras specific to this group, but the evolutnary blogist Jeremy Yor pots out a blog post that for much of morn history gay people haven't been livg openly gay liv. In the 1940s, US sex rearcher Aled Ksey found that while jt 4% of whe men were exclively gay after adolcence, 10% had a three-year perd of gay activy and 37% had gay sex at some pot their liv. This has nothg to do wh Gee Orwell, but scrib the observatn that boys wh olr brothers are signifintly more likely to bee gay - wh every olr brother the chance of homosexualy creas by about a third.