How our gen uld make gay or straight - The Washgton Post

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.

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.

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.

HOW OUR GEN ULD MAKE GAY OR STRAIGHT

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. 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.

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

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.

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?

AFTER FUROR, GAY GROUP SAYS WILL MARCH SOUTH BOSTON PARA

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.

TWO ROMANTIC FUCKERS

Ain Amerin dance team shocks Alabama Christmas para wh their revealg Santa Cls outfsThe Mobile, Alabama-based Prancg El had visors to the Semm Christmas para droppg their jaws on SaturdayThe four-man, all gay dance team specializ J-Settg, a dance style some fd provotive'Their stum and the style of dancg were appropriate': Some members of the muny of 3, 000 Published: 18:58 BST, 22 December 2013 | Updated: 15:44 BST, 23 December 2013 A small Alabama muny got the shock of the season on Saturday when a group of sntily clad gay Ain Amerin Santas took their Christmas para route by Prancg El, an all gay dance team known for their provotive mov and outfs, were nfed by the vatn to walk the Semm, Alabama (populatn 3, 000) Christmas para but swayed and thst their way through outraged crowds anizers have sce apologized for cludg the Prancg El, but the five gentlemen om Mobile thk was all jt part of a day’s down for vios... Prancg El: A dance team of gay black men has ed a furor the small town of Semm, Alabama after appearg their Christmas para Saturday Shock and awe: The dance team has angered the rints of the town of 3, 000 wh their lurid Santa outfs and provotive hip-hop mov ‘It felt like a regular event, ’ dance team lear Kentrell Colls, 26, told ‘We were takg a risk, but we always do.

A South Boston veterans uncil, facg wherg cricism, reversed urse Friday and extend an unndnal vatn to the group of gay veterans had barred om marchg the St.

The velopments Friday appear to rolve the latt chapter of a s-old battle between the veterans uncil and gay anizatns — a battle many thought was settled two years ago when the gay veterans group was allowed to march the para. Then, on Friday afternoon, OUTVETS received an e-mailed vatn, and the uncil formally agreed to ve the gay veterans group Friday night. The new documentary about Ed Koch may have ed his iendship wh a proment gay advote, who suggts the movie that the former mayor is gay.

KOCH FILM’S ‘GAY’ FUROR

The issue up aga the film “Koch, ” when lobbyist and longtime gay activist Ethan Geto rells the outbreak of the AIDS epimic the 1980s. “So many people, particularly the gay muny, thought Koch was gay and that bee he was a closeted gay man he wouldn’t do anythg on AIDS, ” Geto says the movie.