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Contents:

• WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAYS ARE POSSSED BY 'PUTRID-SMELLG' DEMONS THAT PIGS WOULD REJECT, BERT FARIAS CLAIMS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

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. 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.

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

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. 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. Marchers walk down 5th Avenue durg the 2014 Gay Pri March on June 29, 2014 New York Cy.

PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH

Recently, scientists announced that they found some gen that might be associated wh sexual orientatn and a blogil explanatn for the reason gay men tend to have olr the field of sexual orientatn rearch is far broar and more plited than two studi—and Lisa Diamond, a psychologist and sexual orientatn rearcher at the Universy of Utah, knows that better than most.

People rry rabow flags durg the Gay Pri para on September 17, 2017 Belgra, Serbia. Well, the other systematic bias that was troduced the rearch was to foc on exclively gay dividuals.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

I remember I gave a talk at a high school, and the parents asked, "At what age I will know for sure whether my kid is gay?

If they don't turn out to be gay by 18, n I pretty much know, okay, they aren't gay? I n't guarantee you that at age 18, if you child hasn't exprsed same-sex attractns that they won't the future—and ankly ma'am, I n't guarantee you that you are not gog to end up gay eher. Homosexual: Attracted to people of one's own genrPansexual: Attracted to people of any genr intyAsexual: Not sexually attracted to other peopleSexual orientatn volv a person's feelgs and sense of inty; ’s not necsarily somethg that’s noticeable to others.

People may or may not act on the attractns they scientists agree that sexual orientatn (cludg homosexualy and bisexualy) is the rult of a batn of environmental, emotnal, hormonal, and blogil factors.

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

Homosexualy and bisexualy aren’t ed by the way children were reared by their parents, or by somethg that happened to them when they were young. Also, beg homosexual or bisexual do not mean the person is mentally ill or abnormal any way. But ’s possible to have fantasi or to be cur about people of the same sex whout beg homosexual or bisexual.

Some people who are homosexual or bisexual may hi their sexual orientatn to avoid prejudice om others or shame they may have been tght to feel about their to change someone to a heterosexual orientatn, cludg so-lled nversn therapy, don’t work and n be damagg. While homosexual or bisexual orientatn isn’t a mental health problem, there are higher rat of prsn and substance abe (cludg alhol and other dgs) among lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults. The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty. Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai. “As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother.

GAYS ARE POSSSED BY 'PUTRID-SMELLG' DEMONS THAT PIGS WOULD REJECT, BERT FARIAS CLAIMS

“We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018.

Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene.

The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum. “[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said. 1 As most scientific papers on this issue, the ntributn lacks an operatnal fn of (human) homosexualy.

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

2 ‘Homosexualy is characterized by same-sex ntact, eher as a genal act or as a long-term sexual/erotic stat. A homosexual person is able to fall love wh, and bee the pair-bond sexual/erotic partner of only a person of the same morphologil sex'. In prent-day Thailand, some men will say: ‘I am not homosexual, I am a man', implyg that homosexual men are not men but belong somewhere the female tegory of human begs, where else a bary world of two sex?

The scientific thkg about homosexualy started the middle of the neteenth century when the term was ed by Karl-Maria Kertbeny 1869: ‘In addn to the normal sexual urge men and women, Nature her sovereign mood has endowed at birth certa male and female dividuals wh the homosexual urge, th placg them a sexual bondage which renrs them physilly and psychilly pable—even wh the bt tentn—of normal erectn. The German sexologist Magn Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was nvced that legal protectn uld only be argued if beme irrefutably clear that homosexualy was born and had a blogil substrate. His rearch showed that the glands secrete hormon to the bloodstream that fluence not only the animals' physil velopment but also their sexual behavr, rponsible for the ‘sexualizatn' of the bra as male or rearch tools bmedice improved, the prciple guidg bmedil rearch of homosexualy remaed fahful to this ncept attemptg to intify female blogil tras male homosexuals and male blogil tras female homosexuals.

First, multiple sexually differentiated behavral, physlogil, or even morphologil tras are signifintly different men and women, and homosexual and heterosexual populatns (is the latter te? ) Bee some of the tras are anized by prenatal steroids, cludg ttosterone, homosexual subjects were, on average, exposed to atypil endocre ndns durg velopment (atypil for their geic/gonadal/genal sex; female-type endocre ndns male homosexuals and male-type endocre ndns female homosexuals). The prciple guidg bmedil rearch of homosexualy has tradnally been to attribute female blogil tras to male homosexuals and male blogil tras to female homosexuals.