"Why do gay people always feel the need to tell people they are gay?"

Contents:

• WHEN DO MOST HOMOSEXUALS KNOW THEY’RE GAY?
• "WHY DO GAY PEOPLE ALWAYS FEEL THE NEED TO TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE GAY?"
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS GAY: 10 SUBTLE CLU THAT MAKE IT LIKELY
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY

WHEN DO MOST HOMOSEXUALS KNOW THEY’RE GAY?

No matter how hard they try – whether ’s changg their hairstyle, pretendg to be iends wh someone they don’t like, or pretendg to be straight when they’re gay – they jt n’t nform to society’s expectatns. Acrdg to the most recent StatsCan numbers, one per cent of the Canadian populatn is openly gay.

"WHY DO GAY PEOPLE ALWAYS FEEL THE NEED TO TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE GAY?"

However, this number may not take to acunt many homosexuals out there who have yet to terms wh their sexualy, as well as those who are openly gay who may be unfortable wh puttg on a ernment survey. Neverthels, many the homosexual muny say that if they are over the age of 12, is likely they are already aware of their sexualy. She said she realized she was gay at age by: April LambLus Hill, 20, is one that knew at the young age of 12 that he was gay.

Although Hill found acceptance as a gay teen, he still felt distanced om his iends. “It was liberatg to e out, but still didn’t solve the problem that I was the only gay person I knew.

John Hampson also realized at a young age that he was gay, “As long as I n remember, I would notice differenc, like the sound of my voice. Hampson says was durg puberty when he started to realize that he was gay.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Dpe knowg at age 12 that he was gay, he waed until after high school to e out to his iends and fay and says that everyone he told was very receptive. Nastastia Fisher also says that sce she was 12 she knew she was gay. At, 23, who didn’t want his last name published as he is not ready for everyone to know he is gay, was unfortunate enough to have a bad g out experience.

He grew up a very relig home where he had been tght that beg gay was disgtg, wrong, filthy and not normal.

His story is a b different om those above; wasn’t until later life that he knew he was gay, and wasn’t until his send year of universy that he me to terms wh .

ARE WE BORN GAY?

He had e out to his sister a few months before and she had started to stick up for homosexualy small ways ont of their mother, which ma her spic.

It was durg universy exam week that she fally rnered her son and asked him where all the recent ias and opns about homosexualy were g om. Facg people who suggt that homosexualy is a choice is a battle that those terviewed say they’re still often faced wh. I love beg gay now, but when I was first disverg who I was, and when I first started havg sexual feelgs, I fely would’ve chosen to bee straight, bee was jt so hard.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

I doubt any lbian or gay guy I know would say, ‘You know I jt chose , I thought would be fun. The problem is, even many of those articl are really jt a llectn of stance the Calgary Journal, an article entled, "When do most homosexuals know they're gay?

Until you read on and disver that the source for their data is "many the homosexual muny.

"And then went on wh even more actual facts as they ced a natnal survey of 1, 752 llege stunts:* 48% of self-intified gay and bisexual llege stunts beme aware of their sexual preference high school while 26% found their te sexualy llege. * 20% of self-intified gay and bisexual men knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 17% said they knew gra school. * 6% of self-intified gay or bisexual women knew that they were gay or bisexual junr high school, and 11% knew gra school.

HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS GAY: 10 SUBTLE CLU THAT MAKE IT LIKELY

Specifilly, many aspects of the velopment of homosexualy (both the male and female varieti) are not as well unrstood as they should be to make some of the claims that many people felt nfint exprsg. There's a lot to discs regardg the rults of the paper (Skorska et al, 2016): The rearchers were examg the possibily that a maternal immune rponse might play a key role the velopment of a homosexual orientatn mal. Effectively, then, the mother's immune system would (sometim) treat certa male protes produced by the fet as a foreign pathogen and attempt to attack , rultg out that uld clu a homosexual orientatn, but also fetal loss if the reactn was strong enough (i.

Already there is a lot to like about this hypothis on a theoretil level, as don't pos any hidn adaptive benefs for a homosexual orientatn (as such proposed benefs have not received sound empiril support historilly). The rearchers reced approximately 130 mothers and classified them on the basis of what kd of children they had: those who had at least 1 gay son (n = 54), and those who only had heterosexual sons (n = 72). The mothers were then classified further to one of five groups: those wh gay male only-children (n = 8), those wh gay male offsprg that had no olr brothers (n = 23), those wh gay male offsprg wh olr brothers (n = 23), those wh heterosexual male only-children (n = 11), and those wh heterosexual male offsprg wh siblgs (n = 61).

As predicted, the average number of fetal loss were higher the first group (mothers of gay male only-children; M = 1.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

When nsired terms of the rat of misrriag to live to births, a siar picture emerged: mothers of gay male only-children reported more misrriag to live births (M = 1. As birth weight tends to crease over succsive pregnanci, the parisons were limed to first live-born sons only (n = 63); this left 4 gay male only-children, 7 gay mal wh no olr brothers, 14 heterosexual mal wh gay younger brothers, 10 heterosexual male only-children, and 28 heterosexual mal wh siblgs.

The rults mirrored those of the fetal-loss data: mothers of gay male only-children tend to give birth to fants that weighed signifintly ls (M = 2970 grams), than all other groups (d = 1. In sum, then, mothers of gay male only-children tend to have a greater number of misrriag and give birth to signifintly lighter offsprg than mothers of other kds. While 's important to not get rried away wh this fdg given the relatively small sample size (I wouldn't put too much stock an N of 8), there is some suggtive evince here worth pursug further that somethg is atypil fetal velopment the se of gay male offsprg.

HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY

The first qutn that to md is why this effect seemed to be specific to gay male only-children, rather than gay male children wh siblgs? Skorska et al (2016) pos that this might have somethg to do wh some mothers showg a greater immune rponse agast male offsprg, rultg more fetal loss, the rult beg that such mothers are both ls likely to have any children at all and more likely to have gay male children particular. In other words, mothers wh gay male offsprg should be expected to have proportnately more female children owg to a greater male fetal loss.

If mothers of gay men do not tend to have a greater rat of female-to-male offsprg, this would st some doubt on the explanatn (and, sce the only data I've heard reports that gay men tend to have more olr brothers, seems they would have noticed the sister pot by now if existed).