Gay geics - BBC Science Foc Magaze

Contents:

• I THK MY TW BROTHER IS GAY, SHOULD I TELL HIM?
• GAY AND BI INTIL TW BROTHERS THRIVE AS LLEGE ATHLET KENTUCKY
• YOUR GOOD HEALTH: WHY IS ONE ‘INTIL’ TW GAY, THE OTHER STRAIGHT?
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LEARN A BROTHER/SISTER IS GAY
• IS YOUR BROTHER GAY?
• GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

I THK MY TW BROTHER IS GAY, SHOULD I TELL HIM?

If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay.

If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp. If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others. If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay.

GAY AND BI INTIL TW BROTHERS THRIVE AS LLEGE ATHLET KENTUCKY

Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as.

I thk he might be gay.

If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay. How do I tell if a child is gay?

YOUR GOOD HEALTH: WHY IS ONE ‘INTIL’ TW GAY, THE OTHER STRAIGHT?

They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual. In fact, scientists recently intified two specific gen that appear to differ between gay and straight men [1].

For example, one may be straight while the other is gay. In s like this, some might argue that perhaps both tws are actually gay, but one jt hasn’t e out yet. In a study where scientists looked at the sexual aroal patterns of intil tws wh different sexuali—specifilly, where one was gay and the other was straight—they found that gay tws monstrated more genal aroal rponse to same-sex imag, whereas straight tws monstrated more aroal rponse to oppose-sex imag [2].

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LEARN A BROTHER/SISTER IS GAY

In theory, this means two people uld rry “gay gen, ” but both of them wouldn’t necsarily be gay pendg on certa environmental factors. 012% of the populatn nsists of a gay or bisexual person who happens to have an intil tw [2]. On Wednday, Lus, a listener very close to his tw brother, thks the latter is homosexual and wonrs if he should talk to him about .

IS YOUR BROTHER GAY?

Go to gay. So I'm 14 and me out as gay about 3 months ago, My parent's didn't exactly take well and did the whole "you're too young to know" didn't upset me too much and we have jt kda not talked about sce.

The day after I me out to my fay my tw brother told me secret that he lik boys as told me that he's never gog to e out to my parents bee of how they will react that both of are gay:(. Go to askgaybros.

GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS

(Update) I told my tw brother that I was gay, and turns out.. My mom kept llg askg when we’d be home (she’s homophobic btw, and tri to ntrol - we’re both 18 and own our own r so got very annoyg).

It turns out, as a matter of fact, he was gay too.

Now, my brother has never e out to anyone before (bis a iend sophomore year of HS - we’re llege now), so he was noticeably shaky and nervo, but holy crap was a MASSIVE relief. Obvly I knew I was gay but tried to avoid .

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

Turns out he’s gay too, and this whole time we have both spected each other was most likely straight and hid the fact that we were gay om one another.

They know we’re gay, and we live a state where same-sex marriage is legal, so we’re gettg prsure to settle down. I adm this is my first letter about homosexual, ctuo tws, but I’m gog to take you at your word that you two are happy and that I should supprs the imag that me to md of two sets of brothers who lived together and me to unseemly ends: the pack-rat Collyer brothers and the tw gynelogist Marc brothers. We also heard all the time that men uldn't be feme bee supposedly meant you were gay, but we knew we were attracted to girls and received attentn om them, though neher of dated much until llege.

Beg gay and havg a tw who is bi mak that bond even stronger. I’m Chris Malpartida and I’m gay, and my brother Michael is bisexual. I hope that sharg my g out story along wh that of Michael’s would be empowerg for Lato (and non-Lato) gay athlet.

WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

We both knew at an early age that we were gay and bisexual, though we never told the other until recently. We would hear some of our classmat say homophobic thgs and sually throw out slurs. For the longt time that really ma sred to say anythg and ma try to get rid of the “gayns.

” I remember prayg to God to take the gay away bee I didn’t want to be the target or a punchle of a joke.

IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

It was a rough handful of years rryg that ternalized homophobia. We gradually learned to love ourselv and no longer rry the self-py we had for ourselv for beg gay. Durg our hman year we heard que a few homophobic ments and slurs om senrs on the team almost daily and they never suffered any nsequenc.

I asked him if he was gay or bisexual bee I had a feelg he was too, but he said he wasn’t.