Why Are There Gay Women? | Live Science

Contents:

• WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?
• IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?

So, terms of evolutn, they would seem to have a better chance of passg on their gen, while at the same time would seem that the gen that make women gay would quickly vanish om the gene pool. While scientists have a theory for how male homosexualy propagat om one generatn to the next, no one has yet produced a viable explanatn for how the gen that promote lbianism might do the same. A study by Dutch psychologists published the March issue of the Journal of Sexual Medice reported that 10 to 12 percent of male and female children who feel disfort wh their genr go on to intify as gay or lbian as adults.

IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?

Meanwhile, jt 1 or 2 percent of children who are fortable wh their genr inty turn out to be gay or to the nfn about what lbianism is the slippers of female sexualy self. " Plenty of women exist at both extrem of the straight-gay spectm, but is the formatn of this slippery spectm self that most needs explag. She's the openly gay high school senr who wanted to take her girliend to the high school prom at Itawamba High School northern Mississippi.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Recent surveys of teenage girls and young women fd that roughly 15% of young femal today self-intify as lbian or bisexual, pared wh about 5% of young mal who intify as gay or bisexual (see note 2, below). Popular acunts of homosexual behavr often suggt that the behavrs make evolutnary sense bee the people practicg the behavrs make better nts and uncl than heterosexuals do, a theory first advanced by E.

However, studi published the past 20 years have provid ltle support for this hypothis, and have often directly refuted , particularly for male homosexuals. It turns out that gay men are actually more likely to be tranged om niec and nephews, which ntradicts the predictns of Wilson's k altism theory: see for example Bobrow & Bailey 2001, also Rahman & Hull 2005.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

Wilson's 1970s hypothis about homosexual men beg better uncl, wh breathls crly and no substantive mentn of the studi refutg this theory, a lengthy March 29, 2010 feature The New York Tim Magaze. Recent survey data the US and the UK revealed that the proportn of the populatn who intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual has risen slightly and that this trend is particularly salient among the youngt generatn: Generatn Z.

In the UK, only a slight majory of Gen Z members dite that they have an exclively heterosexual attractn, while the US, a Gallup poll dit that roughly 15% of Gen Z intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual – pared to 7. 9% of the Baby Boomers surveyed the US dited they were not heterosexual, many more may have still had same-sex experienc throughout their lifpan, but they simply do not firmly intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

MORE U.S. TEENS INTIFYG AS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, STUDY SAYS

It is much easier to e out today as lbian, gay, or bisexual than was even jt 10 years ago, let alone 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.

There is, however, also a much darker explanatn for why we see fewer dividuals om past generatns intifyg as lbian, gay, or bisexual today than we do om the younger generatns.