This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
Contents:
- ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
- THE INFE GAY JOY OF BOYGENI
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- MANY GEN INFLUENCE SAME-SEX SEXUALY, NOT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’
- GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS
ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
Of the 24 wners this year, at least three are openly gay, meang gay people are signifintly overreprented among the geni pool.
The news has led some to speculate that gay geni outnumber straight on, proportnally, the populatn at large.
Last year, Satoshi Kanazawa argued the Journal of Bsocial Science that gay people are typilly born wh more telligence than the average heterosexual. Some scientists speculate that the same geic factors that e homosexualy one genr also duce hyperfertily the other, a theory lled sexually antagonistic selectn. A gay man might be at an evolutnary ad end, other words, but his sisters will be blsed wh extreme fecundy, more than makg up the balance.
THE INFE GAY JOY OF BOYGENI
This would lead more telligent gay people to e out while leavg dumber gay people the closet, thereby pletely skewg the data. Gay upl are more likely to have higher hoehold and llege gre than straight upl—two possible proxi for telligence. Gay men llege, moreover, have higher-than-average GPAs and are signifintly more likely to participate extracurricular activi.
Here, aga, an alternative explanatn seems highly persuasive: Gay people might jt work harr than their heterosexual unterparts. Startg childhood, most gay people are acutely aware of the challeng they’ll face, the roadblocks they’ll enunter, the discrimatn they’ll battle. Gays born to small towns—which tend toward homophobia—unrstand early on that they mt pe orr to fd acceptance.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Wh this nstant threat of bigotry the background, is any wonr that gay people strive for good gras and great jobs? Gay upl plan well for their fancial futur not bee they’re brilliant money managers, but bee they have ltle to no social safety . Before the fall of DOMA, many gay upl uldn’t share health surance, and none uld share Social Secury benefs.
Gays might be overreprented the “geni” pool—and the Ivy League, and the Fortune 500—but there are more than enough dumb gays to even out the numbers. If we’re gog to sist that gay love is no different om straight love, we’ll have to accept that gay bras are no better, or worse, than straight on. Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men.
Frd somehow duced hundreds of years after Leonardo's ath that the artist was homosexual, but (ahem) celibate. Hodg wr that Alan Turg was the "founr of puter science, mathematician, philosopher, breaker, strange visnary and a gay man before his time. By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy.
MANY GEN INFLUENCE SAME-SEX SEXUALY, NOT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’
Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence. The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome. Pietro Areto’s suggtns of perasty), there is no clear evince of Michelangelo’s homosexualy or, at least, none ditg overt sexual activy, " reads an entry at the universy's webse.
Gtgs is creded wh leadg the succsful movement to change the psychiatric and psychologil profsns' view of homosexualy as a mental pathology. But that had more to do wh her very private nature, acrdg to her sister, Bear Ri, than did wh a lack of pri beg gay.
GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS
Beg one of the natn's first openly gay elected officials, Milk was the standard-bearer of what durg his time was lled the gay liberatn movement. Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974.
For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general. As a member of the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ, the first bill he troduced, 1973, was to ban antigay discrimatn hog, employment, and public acmodatns.
Famo for his quote about the need for uny among mory muni, transplanted Br Harry Hay found the Mattache Society 1950, one of the morn world's first anizatns for gay men. " After more than a away om activism, Hay returned to his work fightg for LGBT equaly by foundg the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front.