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Contents:

• WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• TOP FIVE REASONS I HAVE GAY PRI - REASON 1: COMMUNY
• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• 10 SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• 5 REASONS IT’S GOOD TO BE GAY AND SGLE

WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

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A high-profile homosexual person dog this (or pretty much anythg) is certa to get objectns om those who “don’t approve” around the thgs is evable, and so is the whole “beg gay is a choice” accatn.

The mastream media has always been somewhat blunt or ham-fisted s portrayal of even heterosexual relatnships (for evince of this, see pretty much any married uple an advert), so was a long shot that they’d show homosexuals accurately. Normally heterosexual characters sudnly displayg homosexual leangs when a boost viewg figur are need is a mon trope the days, so you n sort of see how this might make some people thk ’s a “choice”, if they lack more realistic sayg that sexualy is set stone om birth is also not que right, the ma emphasis of those g the choice argument is that homosexuals have weighed up their optns and nscly cid “I am gog to be gay om now on”. Comedian Todd Glass mak a brilliant pot his book (which is great, I got for Christmas), which is that if you genuely believe sexualy is a choice, then you’re not actually straight, you jt haven’t met anyone persuasive enough those who argue that homosexualy is a choice variably assert that is a wrong choice.

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

It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice. Gay pri is the posive stance agast discrimatn and vlence toward LGBT people to promote their self-affirmatn, equal rights, crease their visibily as a social group, build muny, and celebrate their diversy. This g weekend is the gay pri ftival and para Chigo where is expected that nearly three quarters of a ln Chigoans will e together to celebrate the muny (Northwtern Universy IMPACT Program will have a booth, so e by and say hi to the staff).

TOP FIVE REASONS I HAVE GAY PRI - REASON 1: COMMUNY

Communy manifts self formally gay neighborhoods (such as Boystown Chigo), LGBT muny centers (such as the Center on Halsted), anizatns fightg for LGBT equaly (such as Equaly Illois), anizatns workg to assure the wellbeg of LGBT stunts (such as the Alliance for Illois Safe Schools and s work of GSAs), LGBT affirmg relig anizatns, and anizatns workg to remedy dispari LGBT Health (such as Howard Brown Health Center and Vida Sida). But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all?

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

For several years, studi led by Andrea Camper Ciani at the Universy of Padova Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal nts of gay men tend to have signifintly more offsprg than the maternal relativ of straight men. The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ. Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu.

Mal her only one X chromosome — the one om their mother — and if clus the gene that promot gayns mal and fecundy femal, he is likely to be gay while his mom and her female relativ are likely to have lots of kids. Prevly, the Italian rearchers suggted that the "gay man gene" might simply crease androphilia, or attractn to men, thereby makg the mal who posss the gene homosexual and the femal who posss more promiscuo. The androphilic pattern that we found is about femal who crease their reproductive value to attract the bt mal, " Camper Ciani told Life's Ltle out, the moms and nts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and nts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displayg fewer gynelogil disorrs or plitns durg pregnancy; they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed; and they have fewer fay problems and social anxieti.

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

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

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 not.Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics.

10 SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

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 offsprg.Though 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."Most mastream blogists have shied away om studyg bee of the social stigma," he says.

Well there are many exampl of homosexualy nature, 's very mon." Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he says.Rice'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."We've found a story that looks really good," he says.

5 REASONS IT’S GOOD TO BE GAY AND SGLE

Many people argue that homosexualy is a tra exhibed many animals other than human begs while very shockgly, some people ll homosexualy as an stct and pare the wish of a person to be a gay to killg people, fettg that beg a gay do not harm anybody. So grantg homosexual upl their rights will crease the chanc of thoands of faster children to ga lovg parents and fai sce adoptn agenci will be forced to grant the same rpect and rights to homosexual people. Sce most gay upl n’t reproduce themselv, legally permtg homosexualy and allowg homosexual upl to get married will be a great help ntrollg the growth of human populatn which has bee a severe problem recent past for almost all unti of the world.

As we already mentned above, the homosexual muny are big numbers when to populatn, so the untri where same-sex sexual activi or for that matter homosexual marriag and adoptn is not legalized yet, the lg party n give a thought to pass the bill their favor sce will not only let the end of stggle of homosexual people and protts but will also be favorable to the lers as many vot will be ste their favor the next electns.

One n’t ignore the fact that homosexuals are a big mory and hence there is no pot nyg the people their rights which they are naturally entled to and create revolt their hearts, that too when so many other people are their support. But as the matter of the fact, passg the bill to legalize homosexualy will only make life easier for that portn of populatn which has till now suffered bee of opposn om beg what they are and for exercisg what naturally to them. Sometim due to fay prsure and other tim bee of legal issu, homosexual are not very exprsive about their sexual orientatns and ultimately are forced to heterosexual marriag, which turn rults to a divorce.