This statistic shows the shift Amerins' views om 1977 to 2019 as to whether people are born gay or lbian, or their sexual orientatn velops due to upbrgg and environmental factors.
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
* gay nature or nurture *
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.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
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.
BEG GAY: NATURE, NURTURE OR BOTH?
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. 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.