The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage remr that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people still face harsh prejudice Ameri and lack full equal protectns unr the law.
Contents:
- SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
- AM I GAY?
SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
* what if everyone was gay *
When I me out as gay my sophomore year of llege, I absolutely loved gog to Tigerheat – a kschy 18-and-over gay club Los Angel. That’s where I first learned how to openly and unabashedly celebrate beg gay.
After isolatg myself om other gay people for years, I was sudnly surround by them. Those nights had special meang to me as someone explorg my newfound inty as an openly gay man.
Such memori make me pecially disgted that a gay club has bee the se of the U. An assailant who apparently hated gay people shot over 100 people at the Orlando gay club Pulse.
WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?
Theory: Lbians get om their fathers, gay men om their mothers. * what if everyone was gay *
As this massacre remds , vlent hatred toward lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people still remas the Uned Stat. For stance, a large 2013 natnal survey of middle school and high school stunts, 65 percent of LGBT stunts reported hearg homophobic remarks like “fag” or “dyke” equently or often, and 30 percent missed at least one day of school the prev month bee they felt unsafe or unfortable.
Though clg over time, homophobic attus are still wh the U. For stance, acrdg to Gallup poll data, 37 percent of Amerins still view “gay or lbian relatns” as morally wrong, pared to 53 percent of Amerins 2001. And spe this most cle explicly stated homophobia, seeg two men or two women kiss still disgts many people – even well-tentned people – at an implic, tomatic level.
The harsh reali remd me how much of a protected bubble I live as a young whe cisgenr male graduate stunt livg Chigo’s largt gay neighborhood.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
For stance, as photographer and wrer Samra Habib scribed, many queer Mlims not only fear homophobic attacks but also “have to take extra re walkg down the street at night and enterg [their] mosqu for fear of Islamophobic attacks. The assailant who reportedly hated rac and religns other than his own attacked the gay club on s “Lat Night. Dpe the Supreme Court’s historic gay marriage lg June 2015, LGBT people still do not have equal legal rights the U.
Those same 28 stat also provi no explic protectns agast LGBT discrimatn hog; that’s pecially dismayg bee large field experiments have found bias agast gay upl quirg about apartment rentals and senr hog. For stance, a 2013 study Texas found that cy-level bans on employment discrimatn based on sexual orientatn ma employers treat prumed gay applints more favorably a real or mock terview hirg ntext.
PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
Scientists may have fally solved the puzzle of what mak a person gay, and how is passed om parents to their children. A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali.
Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed.
In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study. "There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws, " Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics. Evolutnarily speakg, if homosexualy was solely a geic tra, scientists would expect the tra to eventually disappear bee homosexuals wouldn't be expected to reproduce.
AM I GAY?
But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn.