Marcia Gay Harn: All My Kids Are Queer, and They Teach Me Every Day

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
• WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY
• 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
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS
• WAS JEFEY CARLSON GAY IN REAL LIFE? EXPLORG THE RUMORS ABOUT ALL MY CHILDREN STAR SEXUAL ORIENTATN!

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.

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

Gay? My son is gay. Marcia Gay Harn took part the Drag Isn't Dangero telethon over the weekend where she shared rare ments about her kids.

The show was among the first to al wh social issu such as homophobia and the AIDS crisis. Edmonds me out as gay when his 70s via his bgraphy, "Big Lou" by Craig Hamrick.

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

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS 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.

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

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. 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.

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

"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.

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.

“Gay is here to stay. Both lbians and gay men often have a history of cross-sex-typed behavrs: ltle boys beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg. Prehomosexual boys tend to be more attracted to solary sports such as swimmg, cyclg and tennis than they are to rougher ntact sports such as football and soccer.

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

Children who show pronounced sex-atypil behavrs may have more of a geic loadg to their homosexualy. The behavral patterns are feared, loathed and often spoken of directly as harbgers of adult homosexualy.

It is only relatively recently, however, that velopmental scientists have nducted ntrolled studi to intify the earlit and most reliable signs of adult homosexualy.

In lookg refully at the childhoods of gay adults, rearchers are fdg an trigug set of behavral ditors that homosexuals seem to have mon. Curly enough, the age-old homophobic fears of many parents reflect some genue predictive currency. Zucker, both psychologists, published a semal paper on childhood markers of homosexualy 1995.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

So on the basis of some earlier, shakier rearch, along wh a good dose of mon sense, Bailey and Zucker hypothized that homosexuals would show an verted pattern of sex-typed childhood behavrs—ltle boys preferrg girls as playmat and beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls strangely enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg—that sort of thg. Given that a small proportn of the populatn is homosexual, prospective studi require a large number of children.

Although only 12 percent of the women grew up to be genr dysphoric (the unfortable sense that your blogil sex do not match your genr), the odds of the women reportg a bisexual or homosexual orientatn were up to 23 tim higher than would occur a general sample of young women.

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

And the same holds for gay men. Bailey and Zucker, who nducted a retrospective study which adults answered qutns about their past, revealed that 89 percent of randomly sampled gay men relled cross-sex-typed childhood behavrs exceedg the heterosexual median. The thors found that “those targets who, as adults, intified themselv as homosexual were judged to be genr nonnformg as children.

WAS JEFEY CARLSON GAY IN REAL LIFE? EXPLORG THE RUMORS ABOUT ALL MY CHILDREN STAR SEXUAL ORIENTATN!

There is also evince of a “dosage effect”: the more genr-nonnformg characteristics there are childhood, the more likely is that a homosexual or bisexual orientatn will be prent adulthood. Not all ltle boys who like to wear drs grow up to be gay, nor do all ltle girls who spise drs bee lbians. I took to middle school wrtlg as a rather scrawny 80-pound eighth grar, and so dog, ironilly beme all too nsc of my homosexual orientatn.

Cross-cultural data show that prehomosexual boys are more attracted to solary sports such as swimmg, cyclg and tennis than they are to rougher ntact sports such as football and soccer; they are also ls likely to be childhood bulli. Rearchers readily nce that there are que likely multiple—and no doubt extremely plited—velopmental rout to adult homosexualy. Bee the data often reveal very early emergg tras prehomosexuals, children who show pronounced sex-atypil behavrs may have more of a geic loadg to their homosexualy, whereas gay adults who were sex-typil as children might trace their homosexualy more directly to particular childhood experienc.

Why do parents worry so much about whether their child may or may not be gay? All else beg equal, I spect we would be hard-prsed to fd parents who would actually prefer their offsprg to be homosexual. Evolutnarily, parental homophobia is a no-braer: gay sons and lbian dghters are not likely to reproduce (unls they get creative).