What if everyone were gay? - Great Debat - Straight Dope Msage Board

Contents:

• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?
• 5 ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS WHERE IT WAS OKAY TO BE GAY

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

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.

WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?

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. 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. "The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal, " Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay.

Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between. Well there are many exampl of homosexualy nature, 's very mon. " Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he 's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work.

5 ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS WHERE IT WAS OKAY TO BE GAY

What if everyone were gay? "If everyone was gay, the human speci would die out" what do you thk of that? I've had the gay marriage/ homosexualy bate wh my dad a uple tim and that's one of his arguments.

In this article:It’s easy to fet that homophobia is a relatively morn terventn bee heteronormative history obscur LGBT+ figur and tri to portray non-heteronormative genrs and sexuali as if they’re tth is that if you go back far enough time, you’ll fd that neher homophobia nor any of our current ias about genr and sexualy norms are many ancient civilizatns that we know of where was okay to be gay, and likely even more that have been lost to history. Acknowledgg this history is an important remr that LGBT+ people have always existed and that, for most of human history, they have been loved and accepted for who they tend to thk of homophobia as dated and archaic. Homophobic slurs and sentiments are thgs of the past that nservativ rolutely hold on to, lt society fall to the horrors of women lovg women and beg happy for ntrast, beg open to people of all genrs and sexual orientatns is the progrsive thg to be.