There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• BEG GAY: NATURE, NURTURE OR BOTH?

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

At the time, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn still listed homosexualy as a disorr and psychologists and psychiatrists were traed on ways to treat . Wh a grant om the Natnal Instute of Mental Health, Karen Hooker studied the relatnship between homosexualy and psychologil velopment and illns. In 1973, based on Hooker’s fdgs, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Psychologil Disorrs and 1975, released a public statement that homosexualy was not a mental disorr.

Michael Bailey, a profsor of psychology at Northwtern Universy, nducted the early 1990s that found that homosexualy is largely blogilly termed, not environmentally fluenced. Pillard and Bailey examed intil and aternal tw brothers—as well as nonrelated brothers who had been adopted— an effort to see if there was a geic explanatn for homosexualy.

They found that if one intil tw was gay, 52 percent of the time the other was also; the figure was 22 percent for aternal tws, and only 5 percent for nonrelated adopted brothers. Your rearch suggts that there is often a faial pattern It seems to that beg gay ns fai much more equently than you would expect by chance alone. The objectn to homosexualy exclively om the nservative relig streak, who say, ‘Well, the Bible forbids , therefore we mt be guid by what the Bible says.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

As more gay people are out and open about their orientatn, the general populatn realiz, ‘Well, they’re pretty much the same as everybody else. When I was my medil school trag the 1950s, the only plac you heard about gay people beg were prison or a mental hospal.

Then the late 1960s, when civil rights were beg granted to people of lor and to women and fally to gays, was realized that they’re like everybody else.

” If scientists n show that homosexualy is a geic tra, then homosexuals may have a legimate claim to beg protected as a mory class unr feral and state civil rights laws.

BEG GAY: NATURE, NURTURE OR BOTH?

Whatever the oute of scientific studi, the most important pot that we n make is that the qutn over the geic nature of homosexualy is pletely irrelevant to the bate. Even if homosexuals are “born that way, ” this is absolutely no exce to give to their sir and endanger themselv and others. The most effective tactic homosexual activists employ is to wrap their allegatns a veneer of science when talkg about their sexual orientatn.

Members of the public tomatilly give heavy crence to any claim that origat wh a profsnal medil anizatn or a prtig journal, and homosexual theorists know this. The first large study that claimed that homosexuals are “born that way” was performed by Aled Ksey, and culmated his 1948 report entled Sexual Behavr the Human Male. Simon LaVey, himself a homosexual, examed the bras of 35 male davers (16 heterosexuals and 19 homosexuals) to see if he uld fd any differenc between the groups.

Addnally, three of the “heterosexual” bras had smaller no clters than the average of the “homosexual” on, and three of the “homosexual” bras had larger no clters than the average of the “heterosexual” on.