The cross-sex shift hypothis predicts that gay men should perform more like heterosexual women on important nrognive tasks on which men sre higher than women, such as mental rotatn. Studi also suggt sex differenc exist the nral rrelat of mental rotatn. However, no studi have taken sexual orientatn to acunt or nsired wh-group variatn attributable to relled genr nonnformy (a velopmental tra reliably associated wh human nonheterosexualy). We quantified the nral rrelat of mental rotatn by parg two groups of gay men, genr nformg (n = 23) and genr nonnformg (n = 23), to genr nformg heterosexual men (n = 22) and women (n = 22). We observed a sex difference between heterosexual men and women the premotor rtex/supplementary motor rtex and left medial superr ontal gys. We also observed a sex difference as well as a cross-sex shift gay men who relled beg genr nonnformg as children the right superr ontal gys, right angular gys, right amygdala/parahippompal gys, and bilaterally the middle temporal gys and precuns. Th, cross-sex shifts may be associated wh unrlyg velopmental factors which are associated wh sexual orientatn (such as genr nonnformy). The rults also suggt that gay men should not be studied as a homogeno group.
Contents:
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
- WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
Ron Amato has been takg glorly romantic photos Provcetown and other bety spots for 18 years. Happily you n see them currently at Art Gaysel Miami. * gay men in nature *
This November, Summer Diary has jt opened Summer Outpost - s onle shop and art gallery, sellg origal patgs, exclive prts, digal magaz, and their new lendar for more at, Instagram,, December 5th, Summer Diary heads om s Jersey Shore home to South Beach to exhib at "the gayt fair at Miami Art Week" -- the Art Gaysel show at Hotel Gaytherg. "If you're to llectg queer art and havg a good time" says Billy, "this mt be the place for you to be Miami Beach evengs durg Art Basel" Diary will be showg select works om "The Sun Bathers", their current onle show of origal patgs by Richard Stabbert, "Men In Nature", an exclive & very limed edn of prts by SDP ntributg photographer Ron Amato (clud here this gallery), and "Somewhere Over The Rabow", one-of-a-kd hand pated vtage postrds by Nolan Gaysel ns om December 5 - 9, 2018. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.
WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere. * gay men in nature *
In theory, humans and other animals who are exclively attracted to others of the same sex should be unlikely to produce many blogil children, so any gen that predispose people to homosexualy would rarely be passed on to future generatns.
Yet same-sex attractn is wispread humans, and rearch suggts that is partly a study of data om hundreds of thoands of people, rearchers have now intified geic patterns that uld be associated wh homosexual behavur, and showed how the might also help people to fd different-sex mat, and reproduce.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
New rearch shows the gen that make men gay appear to make their mothers and nts more reproductively succsful. * gay men in nature *
Most of the participants were born durg a time when homosexualy was eher illegal or culturally taboo their untri, so many people who were attracted to others of the same sex might never have actually acted on their attractn, and uld therefore have end up the wrong group the Monk, an elogist and evolutnary blogist at Yale Universy New Haven, Connecticut, thks that the veats are so important that the paper n’t draw any real nclns about geics and sexual orientatn. Instead, he thks the rearchers have found geic markers associated wh openns to new experienc, which uld expla the overlap between people who have had a homosexual partner and heterosexual people who have had many partners. 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?
PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
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.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
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. “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.