“Incg Joy: A Conversatn wh Ross Gay,” January 11 | River Ci' Rear

Contents:

• "LEARNG TO BE GAY" WH MR REGULAR OF RCR
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• PREVIEW “BROS” #TRAILER ABOUT AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BILLY EICHNER WRER AND STAR OF THIS NEW ROMCOM DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER #NOTTOMISS #INTHEATERSSOON #BROSMOVIE
• AM I GAY?
• “INCG JOY: A CONVERSATN WH ROSS GAY,” JANUARY 11

"LEARNG TO BE GAY" WH MR REGULAR OF RCR

Brian clarified that he is misexual, a form of grey asexualy which misexuals "[do] not experience sexual attractn until they have formed a strong emotnal nnectn wh a prospective partner", intifyg as gay a tweet on Natnal Comg Out Day 2021.

I sometim fet that there are fellow gays that realize they are really gay far later life than most, thank you for sharg your experience TheKeipatzy Ill watch the vio.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

But I've recently gotten volved wh a man who didn't realize he was gay until he was his already married wh two young were divorced and amibly -parentg well before he met me, before anyone thk me a homewrecker. I n't image what mt have been like for him to go om not really talkg about himself his vios at all to makg a vio tl "Learng to be gay, " talkg about somethg so tensely personal, but I have to gus took a lot of urage.

I've been subscribed for years and when he mentned he was gay a review a few months ago, my ial thought was yeah that tracks.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

Weeks after his trip to Mosw, Kosski published a ntroversial paper which he showed how face-analysg algorhms uld distguish between photographs of gay and straight people.

PREVIEW “BROS” #TRAILER ABOUT AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BILLY EICHNER WRER AND STAR OF THIS NEW ROMCOM DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER #NOTTOMISS #INTHEATERSSOON #BROSMOVIE

”In a paper published last year, Kosski and a Stanford puter scientist, Yilun Wang, reported that a mache-learng system was able to distguish between photos of gay and straight people wh a high gree of accuracy.

Prented wh two pictur – one of a gay person, the other straight – the algorhm was traed to distguish the two 81% of s volvg imag of men and 74% of photographs of women.

AM I GAY?

Human judg, by ntrast, were able to intify the straight and gay people 61% and 54% of s, rpectively. “I was jt shocked to disver that is so easy for an algorhm to distguish between gay and straight people, ” Kosski tells me. ’ Photograph: Jason Henry/The GuardianNeher did many other people, and there was an immediate backlash when the rearch – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed the Enomist magaze.

“INCG JOY: A CONVERSATN WH ROSS GAY,” JANUARY 11

) There was also anger that Kosski had nducted rearch on a technology that uld be ed to persecute gay people untri such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is punishable by ath.

His fdgs are nsistent wh the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientatn, he says, which argu that the levels of androgens foet are exposed to the womb help terme whether people are straight or gay. “Th, ” he wr his paper, “gay men are predicted to have smaller jaws and chs, slimmer eyebrows, longer nos and larger foreheads... He be prickly when I prs him on Rsia, potg to s dire rerd on gay rights.

(A uple of days later, Kosski tells me he has checked his slis; fact, he says, he didn’t tell the Rsians about his “AI gaydar”. But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.