There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• ARE YOU GAY BY BIRTH OR IS SOMETHG YOU VELOP?
• AM I GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• WHEN IS WRONG TO LL SOMETHG "GAY"?
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• SYNONYMS OF GAY

ARE YOU GAY BY BIRTH OR IS SOMETHG YOU VELOP?

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

AM I GAY?

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

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

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. There's no difference what "" someone to be gay as what "" someone to be straight or any other sexual the 70s, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn has been at the foreont of rearch around the topic of sexual orientatn, sexual preference, and LGBT people. It is has been found that, for example, men who relled beg feme durg childhood are gay, and women who relled playg a more mascule style intified as lbian.

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HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

A recent study, published March 2020, found that men wh olr brothers are more likely to gay. It is suggted that the more male children a mother has, the more likely the youngt child will intify as a gay man.

In other new geic rearch, has been suggted that the ncept of beg born wh a ‘gay gene’ that term if an dividual prefers same-sex partners is not real. Before this study, 2015 there had been rearch suggtg homosexualy uld be lked to the X chromosome. )i thk that weather you are born gay or is somethg you velop is not as important as you cidg who you want to be, if you feel happy or fortable beg gay then there's nothg wrong wh beg happy Tly, we were born cluels, but eventually we get to know who we are and what we want, Thats how you bee who you are, the thg is, everyone was born cluelsThere are different opns on this, and may possibly vary person to person.

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IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?

And also, if one day you fd yourself not so gay as you thought, is fely n't choose to be gay. Now, I don't know if that means gay at birth, but I knew early on what I sired and had acted on those feelgs by the time I was twelve years old.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Everyone gets nfed about their sexualy gays, lbians, bisexual or straight as they grow up. One day will jt click and you will know no one else n tell you what you are only you n tell yourself or work out for yourself what sexualy you areYou're gay at birth, but you may not unrstand yourself until later life. For some people, they were gay g out of the womb, and for others they didn't have this revelatn until much later life.

So, for the sake of 'briefns' that barely occurred, I believe that you n be born gay, AND you n choose later on life as you ga experience experimentg. Homosexualy, along wh any other inty of sexual orientatn along the spectm is somethg that a person is born AS. Sometim, tak longer to realize your are gay or bi by birth, but you have to found out.

This may be due to more tn about sexual orientatns and a general qutng are gay by birth.

WHEN IS WRONG TO LL SOMETHG "GAY"?

Your choice is whether you're gonna act upon or are gay by birth my opn, you don’t choose , and you don’t realise until later on so i gus ’s velopment Sexual orientatns are somethg we are born wh, they n't be fluenced by external factors or by anythg that happens our life. Even when I was young, I remember feelg attracted to mal and femal, and I didn't even know what meant to be 's an answer that is not yet termed but I believe that everyone is born gay but choose bee of var societal actually, a lot of people are nstantly talkg about this and discsg this. Everyone has their own opn, Like if a child has gay parents, he/she don't have to turn out gay as well, but he/she n.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

I believe that uld also be both, somethg you have, a feelg but velop while more I reflect and nsir the circumstanc; I would say y people are born gay. This means that you n be straight, maly straight but not spisg same sex, bisexual, maly gay but not spisg other sex, or gay.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay?

In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay. No one knows for certa why any dividual is gay, but the current thought is that beg gay is not a choice. Morn science is workg to show that geics is one of the of beg gay, although some science nflicts this area.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

"In recent years, evince has accumulated that a homosexual orientatn is hered.

Study of fay history reveals that homosexual men have more homosexuals their fay tree than do heterosexuals. The precise gen volved the of beg gay have not yet been intified but they appear to e om the mother. Addnally, some studi have found that the bras om homosexuals differ om the bras of heterosexuals.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

While psychologil factors may crease the likelihood that someone is gay, no sgle factor is known to e homosexualy. 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.

If, on the other hand, you nsir someone to be gay only if they act on their same-sex attractn then beg gay n be nsired a choice pendg on an dividual's behavr. Whether science n ultimately prove the blogy of beg gay or not, 's important to support all adults their choic no matter how they intify. Numero scientists, psychologists, healthre profsnals, and even relig activists are batg the nature of homosexualy (as well as other kds of sexualy).

SYNONYMS OF GAY

In this Am I Gay quiz, we'll try to terme several mon signs of homosexualy and see how many you exhib. Notice to Rear: "The Boards of both CERC Canada and CERC USA are aware that the topic of homosexualy is a ntroversial one that eply affects the personal liv of many North Amerins.