Are Younger Brothers More Likely to Be Gay? | Psychology Today

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.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

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. 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.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

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.

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

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

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

IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

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

"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.

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

"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).

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.

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

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.