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THE REAL STORY ON GAY GEN
Some nservativ argue that homosexualy is a personal choice or the rult of environmental fluenc. Some gay rights activists sist that homosexualy is geic, hopg that proof om that doma will lead to greater acceptance. Still others, backg the same e, disurage any vtigatn to the blogil origs of sexual orientatn, fearful that posive rults will lead to attempts to rid the world of potential homosexuals.
For them, the disvery of how an dividual be gay is likely to shed light on how sexualy-related gen build bras, how people of any persuasn are attracted to each other, and perhaps even how homosexualy evolved. “Who r about gay men or lbian women? This is much larger than the gay gene; ’s about all sexual reproductn.
Hamer had jt published a study that claimed not only to have fally proved that male homosexualy was at least partially geic but also to have ppoted the stretch of chromosome where one of the gen volved rid. Hamer and his lleagu nducted extensive terviews wh 76 pairs of gay brothers and their fay members and found that homosexualy seemed to be hered through the maternal le. Interviews wh the subjects also revealed them to be eher gay or straight.