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Contents:

• MY BROTHER'S IEND
• HOW OUR GEN ULD MAKE GAY OR STRAIGHT
• GAY AIN AMERIN DANCE TEAM MARCH CHRISTMAS PARA WEARG REVEALG SANTA CLS OUTFS
• AFTER FUROR, GAY GROUP SAYS WILL MARCH SOUTH BOSTON PARA
• TWO ROMANTIC FUCKERS
• KOCH FILM’S ‘GAY’ FUROR

MY BROTHER'S IEND

As his name suggts, Otterj draws his greatt spiratn om the slenr, hairy, beard, and often tattooed gay male subculture known as otters -- but not exclively. The men his photographs are unabashed exhibnists lookg for a place to f to a gay culture that has creasgly turned s back on a sexually aware world where leather and cisg are forms of liberatn. Unfortunately when a film is so eptly nceived and ma on every level, ends up dog a disservice to the issu rais and when gets exposure a prime spot at a major Gay and Lbian film ftival whose future is unr thread, then do a disservice to the future a gay film ftivals as well.

HOW OUR GEN ULD MAKE GAY OR STRAIGHT

The ma culpr here is the terrible screenplay, full of one dimensnal gay stereotyp we have seen a billn tim before. "[My dad] was the person I was most nervo to tell [that I was gay], but [he] wound up beg the easit, " Brandon says.

The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor the 1990s.

GAY AIN AMERIN DANCE TEAM MARCH CHRISTMAS PARA WEARG REVEALG SANTA CLS OUTFS

There are probably many gen that affect human sexual rather than thkg of them as “gay gen, ” perhaps we should nsir them “male-lovg gen. Evince of a “gay gene”We n tect geic variants that produce differenc between people by trackg tras fai that display differenc.

Quantative tras, such as height, are affected by many different gen, as well as environmental ’s hard to e the techniqu to tect geic variants associated wh male homosexualy partly bee many gay men prefer not to be open about their sexualy.

AFTER FUROR, GAY GROUP SAYS WILL MARCH SOUTH BOSTON PARA

Hormon, birth orr and environment play rol, 1993, Amerin geicist Dean Hamer found fai wh several gay mal on the mother’s si, suggtg a gene on the X chromosome. He showed that pairs of brothers who were openly gay shared a small regn at the tip of the X, and proposed that ntaed a gene that predispos a male to ’s nclns were extremely ntroversial. He was challenged at every turn by people unwillg to accept that homosexualy is at least partly geic, rather than a “liftyle choice.

”Gay men were divid: The fdg vdited the oft-repeated claims that “I was born this way” but also opened ighteng new possibili for tectn and year, a larger study of gay brothers, g the many geic markers now available through the Human Genome Project, nfirmed the origal fdg and also tected another “gay gene” on chromosome 8. This has unleashed a new flurry of why such a furor when we know of gay gene variants speci om fli to mammals? Homosexualy is que mon throughout the animal kgdom.

TWO ROMANTIC FUCKERS

For stance, there are variants that fluence matg preference mice, and a mutatn the u fly mak mal urt other mal stead of the “gay gene” really a male-lovg allele? The puzzle is not whether “gay gen” exist humans, but why they are so mon (timat om five percent to 15 percent).

We know that gay men have fewer children on average, so shouldn’t the gene variants disappear?

KOCH FILM’S ‘GAY’ FUROR

There are several theori that acunt for the high equency of homosexualy. A ago I wonred if gay gene variants have another effect that boosts the chanc of leavg offsprg (“evolutnary fns”), and passg the gay allele on.

Maybe the gay allele is jt another of the. If their sisters, mother and nts have more kids who share some of their gen, would make up for the fewer children of gay they do. An Italian group showed that the female relativ of gay men have 1.

I am surprised that this work is not better known, and s explanatory power is neglected the whole bate about the “normaly” of homosexual “normal” are gay allel? We have no ia whether the geic studi intified “gay allel” of the same or different gen. It is tertg that Hamer tected the origal “gay gene” on the X, bee this chromosome has more than s fair share of gen that affect reproductn.