Are gay people smarter than straight people, or do they jt work harr?

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER REVEALS HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO HIS EX-WIFE SCE COMG OUT AS GAY
• ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. "Elizabeth said to me, 'dad whether you're gay or not, I want you my life, '" he relled.

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea. “Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. Choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham, one of at least three openly gay 2013 MacArthur fellows.

ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER REVEALS HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO HIS EX-WIFE SCE COMG OUT AS GAY

Of the 24 wners this year, at least three are openly gay, meang gay people are signifintly overreprented among the geni pool. The news has led some to speculate that gay geni outnumber straight on, proportnally, the populatn at large. Last year, Satoshi Kanazawa argued the Journal of Bsocial Science that gay people are typilly born wh more telligence than the average heterosexual.

Kanazawa asserts that homosexualy is an evolutnary handip bee prevents reproductn. Some scientists speculate that the same geic factors that e homosexualy one genr also duce hyperfertily the other, a theory lled sexually antagonistic selectn.

ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

A gay man might be at an evolutnary ad end, other words, but his sisters will be blsed wh extreme fecundy, more than makg up the balance.

This would lead more telligent gay people to e out while leavg dumber gay people the closet, thereby pletely skewg the data.

Gay upl are more likely to have higher hoehold and llege gre than straight upl—two possible proxi for telligence. Gay men llege, moreover, have higher-than-average GPAs and are signifintly more likely to participate extracurricular activi. Gays are wealthier and better ted than most Amerins; shouldn’t that dite that they’re also smarter?

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Here, aga, an alternative explanatn seems highly persuasive: Gay people might jt work harr than their heterosexual unterparts. Startg childhood, most gay people are acutely aware of the challeng they’ll face, the roadblocks they’ll enunter, the discrimatn they’ll battle. Gays born to small towns—which tend toward homophobia—unrstand early on that they mt pe orr to fd acceptance.

Many stat ban gay adoptn; others keep gay people out of their partners’ hospal rooms. Wh this nstant threat of bigotry the background, is any wonr that gay people strive for good gras and great jobs? Gay upl plan well for their fancial futur not bee they’re brilliant money managers, but bee they have ltle to no social safety .

Before the fall of DOMA, many gay upl uldn’t share health surance, and none uld share Social Secury benefs.

WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS

Gays might be overreprented the “geni” pool—and the Ivy League, and the Fortune 500—but there are more than enough dumb gays to even out the numbers. If we’re gog to sist that gay love is no different om straight love, we’ll have to accept that gay bras are no better, or worse, than straight on.

Image ptn, Dan Harry om Coatbridge was a nttant on BBC Three's "I kissed a Boy"A nttant who appeared on the UK's first gay datg show is takg part a new HIV vacce trial.

"The trial, EHVA PO1, is beg n by specialists London at the St Stephen's Centre and Wtmster Hospal as well as wh partner s source, Dan HarryImage ptn, Dan Harry marched wh Terrence Higgs tst at London pri this year to raise awarens of their work to end HIVMr Harry said that due to the lack of tn school he was left anx about HIV and left him sred to e out as gay. He explaed: "I never heard the word gay if wasn't ed as a slur and never got any LGBTQ tn School.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

"There is a misnceptn around HIV, still predomately affects gay men the UK but actually the implitns this vacce uld have is on a more global sle, " he said.

Be posive and girls - or other boys if you're gay or bisexual - will fd you more attractive. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.