Are Homosexuals Gay? - Samuel McCracken, Commentary Magaze

Contents:

• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• ARE HOMOSEXUALS GAY?
• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

As ual, hypocril straight, old whe men, guilty of nductg, aidg and abettg rampant pedophilia throughout the church, e the rultg sndal not to addrs their unrlyg rponsibily or the roots of the problem but to st blame on gay men ["For Gay Catholic Prits, New Scty, " Metro, June 24]. The report, tled "Homosexualy and Child Sexual Abe, " brgs to light some signifint fdgs: * Pedophil are variably mal: A report by the Amerin Profsnal Society on the Abe of Children stat: "In both clil and non-clil sampl, the vast majory of offenrs are male.

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. 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.

ARE HOMOSEXUALS GAY?

Homosexuali surveys several hundred people the San Francis Bay area, which was chosen as the se for the study on the unrstandable grounds that had a large number of aquately varied homosexuals; a homosexual astcture that would operate wh the study; and an aquate stock of persons to work on the study var paci.

This appears to be the major difference between San Francis and other rejected s, such as New York, Chigo, or ncln of the study is already well known: that homosexuals are more diverse than they have been thought to be (hence the tle) and on the whole much happier than is normally assumed. The work serv, acrdgly, close sponsors have been unually willg to adm to parti pris; their “Concludg Overview, ” they say: “We are pleased at the extent to which the aims of our vtigatn of homosexual men and women have been realized.

Yet there is another sort of diversy, that which ns om the homosexual who is different om the heterosexual person the street solely preferrg his own sex, to the homosexual whose life is shaped every aspect by homosexualy—let say, a transvte3 bartenr a homosexual director of the Instute for Sex Rearch has ntributed a preface which he allus to his own hope that the book will foster an acceptance of homosexuals by heterosexuals.

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

One do not know, of urse, whether this hope motivated the sign of the rearch and the format of s prentatn, but Homosexuali is characterized by a good al of tenntns and what is at bt a certa naiveté the e of thors que properly pot out that bee their sample is not a random one nnot lead to quantative nclns such as that “the average Amerin (or even San Francisn) whe homosexual female has n sexual partners a year.

To the extent, therefore, that one believ that any portn of whatever unhapps may exist homosexuals pends on such external sts, the rults reported Homosexuali may be should be unrstood that the timat of happs and good adjtment and other sirable out that figure so promently Homosexuali are not those of the rearchers but rather those of the subjects themselv.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

While the rearchers were aware of the problem of validatg their data—as, say, to how many sexual enunters X had a week—and veloped methods of rettg and cross-validatn to tect exaggeratns, ambigui, and the like, they do not seem to have given much nsirsiratn to the problem of whether people will be entirely ank, or ed perceptive, about their own feelgs, pecially on so load a report stat s narrative chapter on “Acceptance of Homosexualy” that “almost half of the whe homosexual mal (WHM’s)...

It is only among black women that the rate is parable: 17 per cent of the homosexuals and 16 per cent of the last figure giv addnal crence to the notn that beg a black female is the worst of two worlds, but also suggts that beg homosexual to the barga do not make thgs much ntrast between homosexuals and heterosexuals is even more strikg for those who have ma at least two attempts at suici. Although the discsn of the male data accurately reports the higher attempted suici rat among homosexuals, the two pag of ments on suici, nothg would lead one to unrstand that the data showed that whe female homosexuals have attempted-suici rat twice as high as heterosexuals, and that among black women, homosexuals are twice as likely as heterosexuals to have ma at least two suici attempts.

Moreover, after havg noted that a quarter of the whe homosexual femal, and a sixth of the black homosexual femal, had attempted suici at least once, and havg ma the downright accurate statement that homosexual and heterosexual women did not differ the number of tim they attempted suici, the report says tenntly that the high rat of attempted suici by homosexuals ought to be nsired the light of the fact that San Francis has a very high suici rate. If, for example, the study had shown more tert tabulatg the proportns of transvt and sado-masochists, not to mentn more lurid specializatns, would have been perhaps harr to mata the fortable image of homosexualy as somethg more or ls like heterosexualy, only a ltle different.