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GAY PEOPLE LOOK DIFFERENT, WALK DIFFERENT THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE
An dividual's body motn and body type n offer subtle cu about their sexual orientatn, but sual observers seem better able to read those cu gay men than lbians, acrdg to a new study the September issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology. "Now we've found that sual observers n e ga and body shape to judge whether a stranger is gay or straight wh a small but perceptible amount of accuracy.
Johnson and lleagu at New York Universy and Texas A&M measured the hips, waists and shoulrs of eight male and eight female volunteers, half of whom were gay and half straight. Based on the measurements, the rearchers termed that the gay subjects tend to have more genr-ngent body typ than their straight unterparts (hourglass figur for men, tubular bodi for women) and body motns (hip-swayg for men, shoulr-swaggerg for women) than their straight unterparts. Given that we all appear to be able to duce this rmatn to some gree wh jt a glance, more prehensive polici may be required to protect gays agast discrimatn based on their sexual orientatn.