Gay upl n't have blogil kids together. So if homosexualy is geic, why hasn't died out?
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- BISEXUAL AUNTS, GAY COS: HOW LGBTQ FAY MEMBERS HELP LGBTQ YOUTH NAVIGATE FAY HETERONORMATIVY
- SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
- HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN
- AMID BABI GALORE I’M A CHILDLS GAY AUNT. I ULD NOT BE HAPPIER
- ANTHONY BLUNT AND GUY BURGS, GAY SPI
- THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
BISEXUAL AUNTS, GAY COS: HOW LGBTQ FAY MEMBERS HELP LGBTQ YOUTH NAVIGATE FAY HETERONORMATIVY
A new study by Canadian rearchers adds weight to the theory that the evolutnary role of gay men may be to serve as "super uncl" who help close fay members survive. Pl Vasey, an evolutnary psychologist at the Universy of Lethbridge, sought to addrs an entrenched scientific riddle: If... * gay aunt theory *
StoneSomethg unique to beg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) is a ncern that your fay will reject you for genr or sexual inty. Jon, a 21-year-old Whe bisexual genrfluid man, said a fay member once hted to him that his uncle is gay, but he uld not remember if was te. However, he was not ma aware of his nt until after he me out, nyg him the experience of havg a trans role mol the fay as he was figurg out his genr were the lbian, gay, and bisexual relativ so important?
The lbian, gay, and bisexual relativ were also supportive of the youth their fay, providg them wh relatnship advice, trips to Pri events, and role mols. The so-lled "gay uncle" hypothis poss that people who themselv do not have children may nohels crease the prevalence of their fay's gen future generatns by providg rourc (food, supervisn, fense, shelter, etc. Let's jt say that the hypothis that gays do provi extra rourc for their nephews and niec is te (I'm not sayg is, but jt pretend is).
Sce people are 50% related to their children and 25% related to their nephews/niec, do this mean that to keep up wh heterosexuals, gays on average would need to provi protectn for twice the average number of children of heterosexual upl? Straight upl providg protectn for two children (50%, 50%) is equivalent to a gay uncle providg protectn for four children (25%, 25%, 25%, 25%). But that's jt to keep up wh heteros, so for the gay gen to actually spread (rather than jt exist), they'd need to provi for more than twice the average for heteros?
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
* gay aunt theory *
A new study by Canadian rearchers adds weight to the theory that the evolutnary role of gay men may be to serve as "super uncl" who help close fay members survive. Pl Vasey, an evolutnary psychologist at the Universy of Lethbridge, sought to addrs an entrenched scientific riddle: If homosexualy appears to be hered, how have gay men, who are ls likely to reproduce, ntued to pass on their gen whout beg extct?
Acrdg to The Gazette of Montreal, one long-nng theory argu that gay men serve the evolutnary role of actg as "super uncl" who assist close relativ and directly crease the chanc of passg on their gen.
"The ia is that homosexuals are helpg their close relativ reproduce more succsfully and at a higher rate by beg helpful: babystg more, tutorg their niec and nephews art and mic, and helpg out fancially wh thgs like medil re and tn, " reports The Gazette. Now, if you want an example of Gay Ricky and And They Were Roommat Lethel (terrible ship name, Siri please revise) you n watch S1 Ep18 “Vatn From Marriage”. Every person who participated was eher a gay clockg on the low sgle digs of the Valid Sle, or a terrifyg heterosexual.
HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN
Queer theory emerged om a variety of studi and cultural movements, cludg femism, gay and lbian studi, sexual subcultur, and black activism, particularly around the late 1980s and early 1990s. Over time, “queer” veloped as a pejorative term to scribe someone who was “homosexual”, particularly the late 1800s and early 1900s the US. This, along wh “new ernmental regim” that sought to regulate sexualy om the 18th century onwards, is believed by Fouult to have a hand the nstctn of the ncept of morn homosexualy.
The homosexual inty and other groups of “viant” people who were typified by the medil field “were signed to prerve and foster a productive and procreative populatn (or workforce) that met the needs of a velopg palist system”, wrote Spargo. Sce this book was published 1990, Judh Butler beme one of the biggt nam femist theory, gay and lbian studi, and queer theory. Alongsi the analys, Sedgwick offers thought-provokg arguments about the nstctn of the homosexual man and the homo/heterosexual bari and norms rerced the 20th century.
A new study found that homosexual men may be predisposed to nurture their niec and nephews as a way of helpg to ensure their own gen get passed down to the next generatn.
AMID BABI GALORE I’M A CHILDLS GAY AUNT. I ULD NOT BE HAPPIER
Rearch has nfirmed that male homosexualy is at least partly heredary – tends to clter fai, and intil tw brothers of gay men are more likely to be gay than aternal tw brothers, who do not share intil scientists have been puzzled about how the gen are perpetuated, sce homosexual mal are ls likely to reproduce than straight mal.
"If fa'afafe have really been selected to be avuncular and this is an adaptatn, then they would not be redirectg rourc to non-k children, " Vasey rearchers published their fdgs a Febary issue of the journal Psychologil k selectn hypothis was first proposed the 1970s, but prev efforts to tt among gay male populatns Wtern societi found no effect. A study Chigo and another England found no difference between gay men and straight people altistic behavr toward fay members.
"Addnally, there is ls discrimatn agast fa'afafe, pared wh the still-wispread homophobia that exists many Wtern societi.
ANTHONY BLUNT AND GUY BURGS, GAY SPI
Even if many Wtern gay men wanted to be dotg uncl, their fai might not always enurage said the next step is to tt whether this trend exists other non-Wtern cultur where mal wh same-sex attractns are also accepted as a unique also said that he don't thk the k selectn hypothis entirely acunts for the endurance of gay gen, but that likely plays a role batn wh other blogil 10 Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the WildSex Quiz: Myths, Taboos and Bizarre FactsMom's Geics Could Produce Gay Sons. Third, among the female relativ, those related to the gay man’s mother produce children at a higher rate than do those related to his father.
Fourth, among the man’s male relativ, homosexualy is more mon those related to his mother than those related to his father. The gene for male homosexualy persists bee promot—and is passed down through—high rat of procreatn among gay men’s mothers, sisters, and nts. This theory don’t acunt for female homosexualy, which another new study (reviewed Human Nature last week) attribut to nongeic factors.
THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
It also don’t acunt for environmental or prenatal chemil factors male homosexualy, such as the rrelatn between a man’s probabily of homosexualy and the number of boys prevly gtated his mother’s womb. The predictn is that on average, if you’re a straight man, the reproductive pattern among your nts will reverse the pattern seen among nts of gay men. The study’s prs release nclus that “homosexualy should not be viewed as a trimental tra (due to the rced male fecundy entails), but, rather, should be nsired wh the wir evolutnary amework of a characteristic wh genr-specific benefs.
But the word nsequence suggts a sixth, ls happy implitn: How would gay men see themselv and be regard a society that unrstood their ndn as a si effect of female evolutn?