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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.

This would lead more telligent gay people to e out while leavg dumber gay people the closet, thereby pletely skewg the data.

THE INFE GAY JOY OF BOYGENI

Gay upl are more likely to have higher hoehold and llege gre than straight upl—two possible proxi for telligence.

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

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.

MANY GEN INFLUENCE SAME-SEX SEXUALY, NOT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’

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.

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.

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

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.