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An immune rponse some pregnant women’s bodi may expla the “aternal birth orr effect” – that men are more likely to be gay the more olr brothers they have

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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LEARN A BROTHER/SISTER IS GAY

I don't mean your actual brother, I mean your bt iend. If somethg is odd about your bro, like him actg spic around other boys - or somethg else that jt seems odd - take this quiz to fd out if he might be gay. * brother is gay *

If you jt have a feelg that your brother is gay, that's okay. If you thk your brother is gay bee he watch a "girly" TV show or his voice sounds a certa way, that's relyg on stereotyp.

IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)

T.J. Osborne, who publicly shared for the first time Febary that he is gay, kissed boyiend Abi Ventura after his CMA Awards w was announced. * brother is gay *

If you live a particularly homophobic or transphobic area, discs safety plans wh the fay member se of vlence om others. If your fay member has e out as gay or bisexual, accept that they will end up seeg someone of their own genr, and that's perfectly okay.

T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND

What is like to have a gay siblg? * brother is gay *

Don't be aaid to rearch beg gay, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, or whatever your fay member me out as. I thk he might be gay. If you saw your brother kissg another guy and he said he is not attracted to women, y, he is gay.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS

I have a gay brother and I hope this helps you figure out if your brother is gay ^_^ remember that outg people is not kd and that if your brother is gay, he will e out when he is ready!: P If you want to e this quiz for your iends and not brother, that's okay, but I n't guarantee that 'll be as accurate XD * brother is gay *

How do I tell if a child is gay? They might have a lack of tert the oppose sex if they’re homosexual or asexual.

TELLG FRIENDS AND RELATIV ABOUT A CHILD WHO SAYS HE’S GAY

T.J. Osborne, the lead volist of Brothers Osborne, the band he formed wh his brother John Osborne, has publicly shared for the first time that he is gay. * brother is gay *

As a rult, many aterny brothers and sorory sisters more than likely have never knowgly enuntered someone who is gay, lbian, or bisexual and/or may not know what to do when they learn a brother/sister is gay. Such lack of knowledge and preparatn perpetuat the ignorance and fear surroundg homosexualy and jeopardiz brotherhood/sisterhood for both gay and straight aterny brothers and sorory sisters.

This list provis some suggted ias to keep md when a aterny brother or sorory sister learns that another brother/sister is gay, some remendatns on what you need to do when you learn that a Brother/Sister is Gay.

Rpect his/her choice to tell you by lettg him/her know you will not tell anyone he/she is gay. How long have you known that you were gay?

IS YOUR BROTHER GAY?

Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study om Universy of Toronto rearchers. The reason may be the maternal immune hypothis. * brother is gay *

Do other brothers/sisters or iends know that you are gay? A aterny brother/sorory sister is spected or perceived to be gay….

Remember that your brother/sister may be gay, but he/she may not be ready to acknowledge this to himself/herself or others.

T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY

Be supportive of your brother/sister, possibly brg up gay topics to munite that you would be a person wh whom he/she n talk. Unrstand that your brother/sister may not be gay. Your Brother/Sister may need support to al wh shameful feelgs that someone the fay is gay.

They will also need assistance nouncg and bullyg their peers when others fd out that they have a gay or lbian siblg. As a siblg, here’s a list of what NOT to do when you already know you have a gay brother/sister:.

Do not be aaid to ask qutns about beg gay and/or about his/her g out procs. Accept her as beg gay. Do not be ashamed or fail to fend a brother/sister who is gay if, otherwise, he/she is a good sister.

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HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHY AND SLIGHTLY SOCIALLY AWKWARD, BUT LATELY HAS GOTTEN MUCH WORSE. HE HAS DROPPED ALL OF HIS HOBBI AND NOW PLAYS VIO GAM EVERY CHANCE HE GETS. BEE OF THIS HE DOSEN'T HAVE VERY MANY IENDS AND HAS GAED A NSIRABLE AMOUNT OF WEIGHT. I AM WORRIED THAT HE WONT GROW OUT OF THIS PHASE ANYTIME SOON IF AT ALL. I STARTED WONRG IF HE HAD ANY IENDS SO ONE DAY I LOOKED THROUGH HIS TEXT MSAG ON HIS IPHONE. HE ONLY HAD LIKE SIX NTANCTS CLUDG ME AND OUR PARENTS. I FOUND A KID HIS AGE OM SCHOOL WHO HE WAS TALKG TOO AND SHOCKED ME. MY LTLE BROTHER WAS TRYG TO NVCE THE KID TO "SEXT" HIM AND THE KID KEPT RPONDG "NO THATS GAY LOL". HE THEN LATER SENT THE KID A LK TO A PORN SE. IS MY LTLE BROTHER ACTUALLY GAY? ULD THAT BE THE REASON HE IS BEG SO DISNNECTED OM THE RT OF OUR FAY? ULD JT BE A PHASE? AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, SHOULD I TALK TO HIM ABOUT ?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 17-YEAR-OLD, WHO POSTED HIS THOUGHTS WH A TEMPORARY THROWAWAY ACUNT APRIL, SCRIB HIS YOUNGER BROTHER EXHIBG ALL THE CLASSIC SYMPTOMS OF PRSN (WHDRAWG OM SOCIAL SETTGS, DROPPG IENDS, LOSG TERT HOBBI).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: GAY KIDS WHO COME OUT AT SCHOOL ARE HAPPIER, STUDY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OVERLOOKG THE, HE THEN ASSUM WHAT'S 'WRONG' WH HIS BROTHER IS NOT PRSN, 'S THAT HE MT BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"COULD BE A PHASE?" HE ASKS. "SHOULD I TALK TO HIM ABOUT ?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A SANE MENTER RPONDS:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF HE IS GAY AND PRSED THIS IS PROBABLY A REALLY DIFFICULT TIME FOR HIM AND IF YOU WERE TO SAY ANYTHG TO HIM SHOULD BE 100% SUPPORTIVE AND NON-NONTATNAL, ALG WH THE ISSU AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE IS STRSFUL ENOUGH. SCE YOU'RE POSTG HERE I ASSUME YOU ONLY WANT THE BT FOR HIM, SO MY ADVICE IS TO JT BE THERE FOR HIM AND KEEP AN EYE ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Do not be aaid to e the word gay/lbian or bisexual, and do not ignore him/her when he/she brgs up gay topics. Do not try to rtrict the brother’s/sister’s eedom to share beg gay and/or to be a public role mol.

Lead by example, and remember that there are gay men/women every hoe.

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

Do not kick your brother/sister out of the aterny/sorory for beg gay. Do not be aaid to approach a gay brother/sister if you thk his/her actns are appropriate. Hold a gay brother/sister to the same standards as all brothers/sisters.

HAVG OLR BROTHERS CREAS MEN’S LIKELIHOOD OF BEG GAY

Revised om Out on Fraterny Row: Personal Acunts of Beg Gay a College Fraterny, eded by Shane L. How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal. Between 2 and 11 percent of human adults report experiencg some homosexual feelgs, though the figure vari wily pendg on the survey.

Homosexualy exists across cultur and even throughout the animal kgdom, as the thors of a mammoth new review paper on homosexualy wre.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

Female Japane maqu will even pete tersexually wh mal for exclive accs to female sexual ’s what we don’t know: What, specifilly, someone to bee gay, straight, or somethg between.

Part of the explanatn is geic, but bee most intil tws of gay people are straight, heredy don’t expla “why” qutn is important bee “there is a strong rrelatn between beliefs about the origs of sexual orientatn and tolerance of non-heterosexualy, ” acrdg to the report thors, who are om seven universi spanng the globe. (When Atlantic ntributor Chandler Burr proposed his 1996 book, A Separate Creatn, that people are born gay, Southern Baptists lled to boytt Disney films and parks prott agast the publisher, Disney subsidiary Hypern. ) It shouldn’t matter whether people “choose” to be gay, but polilly, do—at least for of the most nsistent environmental explanatns for homosexualy is lled the “aternal birth orr effect.

” Essentially, the more olr brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay. Studi have found that a man whout olr brothers has about a 2 percent chance of beg gay, but one wh four olr brothers has a 6 percent chance. Average prevalence 2013 (Sav-Williams and Vrangalova)Acrdg to the report, Blanchard now plans to tt mothers of gay and straight men for the prence of the antibodi.

WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

If proved out, fetal birth orr uld do a lot to fill the missg explanatns for homosexualy. But gaps will rema, such as why some firstborn sons are gay, why some intil tws of gay sons are straight, and why women are gay, to name jt a review-paper thors do le out one explanatn for homosexualy, however: That tolerance for gay people enurag more people to bee gay. “Homosexual orientatn do not crease equency wh social tolerance, although s exprsn ( behavr and open intifitn) may do so, ” they reasong—that a tolerant society somehow enurag homosexualy to flourish—has been ed to support anti-gay legislatn Uganda, Rsia, and elsewhere.

The laws do margalize and shame gay people, the thors wre. If somethg is odd about your bro, like him actg spic around other boys - or somethg else that jt seems odd - take this quiz to fd out if he might be gay.

ya she gay i been cshg on her for a long time im gog to ask her out. Yeah my bro is gay 100%.

HIS BROTHER IS GAY; WHAT ARE HIS RPONSIBILI TOWARDS HIM?

omg he is gay? my bro is really gay. Omg I'm a girl and I'm only 11 and my bro is 9 I thk he is gay and why would he watch gay ?OR??

Ya he’s gay af.

I’m gay too, and he’s really cute-. I have a guy iend who won't adm that he's gay but I'm a girl. Why n't jt be to work out if they're gay.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BROTHER IS GAY

His brother is gay; what are his rponsibili towards him? - Islam Qutn & Answer.

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