Marcia Gay Harn explas why her kids spire her LGTBQ+ advocy | CNN

Contents:

• ALL MY CHILDREN'S AJ CHANDLER WAS GOG TO BE GAY, REVEALS PORTRAYER ERIC NELSEN
• MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS 'ALL MY CHILDREN ARE QUEER' DURG DRAG ISN'T DANGERO TELETHON APPEARANCE
• MARCIA GAY HARN: ALL MY KIDS ARE QUEER, AND THEY TEACH ME EVERY DAY
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER
• GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

ALL MY CHILDREN'S AJ CHANDLER WAS GOG TO BE GAY, REVEALS PORTRAYER ERIC NELSEN

E out as gay.

Was revealed to be gay, he did get the chance to play a gay character on The Bay. "I thk I dropped a bird [The Bay creator] Gregori Mart's ear by tellg him that before All My Children end, they were gog to have my character of AJ Chandler have a storyle where he is gay, " he shar. Gay?

My son is gay.

MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS 'ALL MY CHILDREN ARE QUEER' DURG DRAG ISN'T DANGERO TELETHON APPEARANCE

Marcia Gay Harn took part the Drag Isn't Dangero telethon over the weekend where she shared rare ments about her kids. All of Osr-wng actrs Marcia Gay Harn’s children are members of the LGBTQ+ muny, and she’s learned much om them, she said at the Drag Isn’t Dangero telethon held Sunday night to raise funds to fight anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn.

“My son is gay.

As the actor explaed on The View at the time, he got a ll months after his first tapg about the updated storyle, and eventually spoke wh the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) to prepare.

MARCIA GAY HARN: ALL MY KIDS ARE QUEER, AND THEY TEACH ME EVERY DAY

Scientists may have fally solved the puzzle of what mak a person gay, and how is passed om parents to their children.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali.

Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.

In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics. Evolutnarily speakg, if homosexualy was solely a geic tra, scientists would expect the tra to eventually disappear bee homosexuals wouldn't be expected to reproduce.

MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER

But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn.

"The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay. Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between.

GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER

Well there are many exampl of homosexualy nature, 's very mon. " Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work.

Actrs Marcia Gay Harn’s advocy for LGTBQ muny is motivated, she says, by they love she has her three of adult kids who all intify as queer.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

“Gay is here to stay. “A group of naked men participated the Seattle Gay Pri para – exposg themselv to small children along the para route, ” said nservative rad host Todd Starn a post. Not only that, gave Ameri s first gay s character — and que likely, the first LGBT character on a show of any kd that was portrayed sensively and posively.

In short, if you’re an otherwise pop culture-savvy gay guy who’s never seen an episo of All the Fay, at least know about this one. On Febary 9, 1971, jt five episos to All the Fay’s first season, “Judgg Books by Covers” turned Archie Bunker’s anger toward gay men — or as he lls them many tim throughout the episo, fags. While the episo begs wh Archie fumg that he has to teract wh his dghter’s effemate male iend, he’s shocked later on to fd out that Steve (Philip Carey), the manly ex-football player who hangs out at the lol bar, is himself gay.

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

What’s remarkable about this episo is that most prev TV pictns of gay people were fairly negative. But give this episo of my podst, Gayt Episo Ever, a sp.

And if not, you’ll at least know the story of the first gay character to ever gut-star on a s. You n subscribe to Gayt Episo Ever on iTun, on Google Play and on Soundcloud.