The unexpected joys of learng om my younger gay brother - WHYY

Contents:

• THE UNEXPECTED JOYS OF LEARNG OM MY YOUNGER GAY BROTHER
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
• SCED BY MY SISTER'S BOYIEND PART 1: A GAY TABOO EROTI STORY
• IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)
• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• IT'S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE FOR A 17-YEAR-OLD GAY BOY TO GRAB HIS 15-YEAR-OLD BOYIEND'S ASS.

THE UNEXPECTED JOYS OF LEARNG OM MY YOUNGER GAY BROTHER

In the past few years, I have e to learn a lot about beg an out and proud gay black man om my younger brother.

But other ways, we are not that different: We share the same dad, are vout members of Beyoncé’s BeyHive, and we both are gay. Perhaps, that is why I did not know right away that he was gay too. As he tells , he knew I was gay sce he was elementary school, but was somethg that we did not discs until he me out to me 2013, when he was still high school.

He knew he was gay and was prently a relatnship. Comparatively, I me out at a much later age than he did, and when I did, I said what many gay men say at first when they are sred, that a part of them was still attracted to women. Whereas for me and other gay men I grew up wh, we had a layed adolcence and often had to experience our first sexual enunters secret and often wh shame.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

For his 21st birthday this year, I got to take him on an troductory tour of the Gayborhood, where we shuffled between a half-dozen bars.

One of the unexpected joys that I have of beg a gay man is sharg wh my brother. Newspapers, along wh Gay Byrne’s rad show, reported ctuo abe, which gradually me to feature more promently the media.

"Featurg me AND my ltle brother, who is also gay! I ll this picture, 'Blue, Blue, Brown, Brown, Gay.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

"I'm a gay trans man who lov drs.

SCED BY MY SISTER'S BOYIEND PART 1: A GAY TABOO EROTI STORY

"Let's jt say didn't really e as a shock to anybody when I turned out to be a gay trans man.

IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

"A baby gay wh legs for days. In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers. "In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study.

"To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia).

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java. Consistent wh Blanchard and Bogaert's fdgs Wtern societi, they found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr brothers than heterosexual men. To be specific, homosexual men their sample had an average of 0.

Intertgly, the rearchers also found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr sisters, although this difference was smaller than the olr brother difference.

The rearchers then tted whether homosexualy was visible the facial featur of Indonians. Usg standardized photographs of heterosexual and homosexual Indonian men, the rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were perceived to have more feme facial featur than men whout olr brothers. They did not, however, fd that homosexual men were any more femized their facial featur than heterosexual men.

IT'S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE FOR A 17-YEAR-OLD GAY BOY TO GRAB HIS 15-YEAR-OLD BOYIEND'S ASS.

The thors wre, "Taken together, the rults suggt the prence of a femizg factor associated wh male homosexualy that is partially termed by male birth orr. Homosexualy has been a long-standg pot of nfn for evolutnary psychologists.