What the "Gay Caveman" Story Don't Tell Us About Sexual Variabily | Psychology Today

Contents:

• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?
• ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE
• WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY
• SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

Archaeologists Prague say they've unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — but media claims of a "gay veman" may be exaggerated, acrdg to some rearchers.

Not gay, not a veman Vova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr. [ 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked] The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil. For one thg, the plexy of the third-genr ncept mak llg the skeleton "gay" an oversimplifitn, Krista Killgrove, an anthropologist at the Universy of North Carola, wrote her blog, Bone Girl.

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

"If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn ' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told LiveScience. Not only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal Wh the Dead 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked Top 10 Mysteri of the First Humans Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senr Wrer. "We found one very specific grave of a man lyg the posn of a woman, whout genr specific grave goods, neher jewelry or weapons, " lead archaeologist Kaa Remisova Vova of the Czech Archaeologil Society told Prs gay, not a vemanVova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

"If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison. - EMJ & DD*___The Allure of Gay CavemenThird genrs, two spirs, and a media whout a clueby Eric Michael JohnsonIn 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegelreported a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act.

CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?

The orig of the mor, as Cecil Adams disvered, turns out to have been an April Fool's prank published the Atrian gay magaze Lambda Nachrichten. The problem lay not wh the scientists, who were scribg prelimary fdgs that previewed some tantalizg rults, but a media culture that emphasiz sensatnalism over accuracy and beg first over beg all acunts seems that the UK Telegraph had the dub honor of beg first this se, and so dog mted two wrongs jt as many words: "Gay Caveman.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE

Sendly, an alternative sexual orientatn do not make a person gay.

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In ten untri (cludg where I s Canada, though not where I'm om the Uned Stat) gay marriage has the same legal regnn as straight marriage.

WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY

The popular allure of the gay veman story is jt one ditn of this ongog change. The followg post origally appeared at Nron Culture hosted by Wired after the origal report last 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegel prted a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act. The alleged “gay veman” that archaeologists recently disvered may not be que what seems, say other rearchers.

When archaeologists unvered the remas near Prague, the man was buried a posn ed to bury femal, which led the rearchers to say they had disvered an ancient homosexual man.

SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS

Many archaeologists speculate that the se has been oversimplified the craze surroundg the potential disvery of a “gay veman. ” Jt go to show that if NewsFeed really wanted to see a gay veman, we uld jt misterpret Fred and Barney’s bromance on The Fltston. Rearchers Dig Up 'Homosexual Or Transsexual' Caveman Near Prague: The Two-Way The body of the veman was buried an untradnal way — the way women were ually buried.

'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

Time reports the way the body was buried might mean the man was gay, bee the burial is nsistent wh the way women were buried. "Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual.

Kaa Remisova Vova and her team of rearchers om the Czech Archeologil Society believe they have unearthed the remas of an early homosexual man.