Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, study suggts

Contents:

• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

We always “knew” he was gay, as much as anyone n “know” somethg about another person, while I grew up ee om any and all spicn, mostly on acunt of who Hayn was emergg to be.

When he me out first as bi, and then as gay, was more of a relief than an adjtment. Not like I did — step by step, shadow to shadow, wantg to harm myself, or vom after masturbatg to gay Hayn, who me out to our fay and moved outward, I was, by the middle of llege, dog the oppose: I was g out to iends, teachers, and strangers, chg closer and closer toward the center, toward my fay. When he and I hung out, I acted even straighter, so that there was no nfn: He was the gay one, I was the straight one.

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.

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

"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. 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.