An immune rponse some pregnant women’s bodi may expla the “aternal birth orr effect” – that men are more likely to be gay the more olr brothers they have
Contents:
- WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
- MARCIA GAY HARN REVEALS ALL HER CHILDREN ARE QUEER: ‘THEY TEACH ME EVERY DAY’
- MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
- ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
- MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER
WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
* my youngest son is gay *
The more olr brothers a boy has, the more likely he is to be gay when he grows up – an effect lled the “aternal birth orr effect”. They found that the mothers of gay sons wh olr brothers had the hight levels of antibodi agast this prote, followed by the mothers of gay sons wh no olr brothers.
“Given that the prote is known to be important synapse formatn, you n see how maternal antibodi might affect the wirg of the fetal bra, and that might expla why each subsequent son is more likely to grow up gay. “The signifince of this prelimary observatn, if n be replited, is that intifi specific molecul the bra that may be important for heterosexual as well as homosexual velopment, ” says Dean Hamer, a pneer of rearchg the blogil termants of sexual orientatn. Read more: What do the new gay gen tell about sexual orientatn?
MARCIA GAY HARN REVEALS ALL HER CHILDREN ARE QUEER: ‘THEY TEACH ME EVERY DAY’
Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study om Universy of Toronto rearchers. The reason may be the maternal immune hypothis. * my youngest son is gay *
All three of Marcia Gay Harn’s children are queer. My son is gay.
MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
Marcia Gay Harn revealed that all three of her children are queer durg the “Drag Isn’t Dangero: A Digal Fundraiser” live telethon on Imag. “Gay is here to stay.
ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study published Wednday the journal Proceedgs of the Royal Society B. This new report builds upon prev rearch regardg male birth orr and homosexualy, though there is still no cisive ncln as to why there’s a lk between the cross-analyzg data om 10 scientific studi wh more than 5, 000 subjects, rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were 38 percent more likely to intify as gay. ”The study, which pared the probabily of the youngt brother a two-son fay beg gay as pared to the olst son, did not clu female subjects, as prev rearch has tablished that women do not fluence the sexual orientatn of their younger siblgs, acrdg to this study did not terme a ncrete reason for the rrelatn between a man havg an olr brother and intifyg as gay, Blanchard said that “pots toward the need for more rearch on the 'maternal immune hypothis'” — a theory Blanchard troduced 1996 that suggts that a mother is exposed to “male-specific substanc” durg pregnancy wh or the birth of a son.
MARCIA GAY HARN SAYS ALL THREE OF HER ADULT KIDS INTIFY AS QUEER
Acrdg to proponents of the theory, the mother’s immune rponse is changed durg the pregnancy of a boy, creasg the likelihood that a subsequent male child would be gay. In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers. "In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study.