Actor Cynthia Nixon recently stirred ntroversy when she clared that she had chosen to be gay.
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CAN YOU CHOOSE TO BE GAY?
People choose to be gay. Government should protect gay people om discrimatn bee homosexualy is an unalterable aspect of their inty. “Beg gay is bad.
How wonrful is that nobody has to be gay! “Homosexual behavr should be allowed to take place.
Perhaps sexual preference n be changed – and people have the right to engage gay sex and have homosexual relatnships if they choose to do so. (The fourth optn, that gay people have no choice but to be gay, but should be punished for anyway, is morally unthkable. A gay man is more likely than a straight man to have a (blogil) gay brother; lbians are more likely than straight women to have gay sisters.
GAY? BI? STRAIGHT? (WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE)
In 1993, a study published the journal Science showed that fai wh two homosexual brothers were very likely to have certa geic markers on a regn of the X chromosome known as Xq28.
This led to media headl about the possibily of the existence of a “gay gene” and discsns about the ethics of abortg a “gay” fet. Your culture affects your views on homosexualy.
In some societi, homosexualy is accepted, others, is owned upon but tolerated, yet others, is a ser crimal offense, possibly punishable by ath. Male homosexual behavr was expected ancient Athens. Today, rual male homosexualy plays an important role some cultur New Guea.
WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO BE GAY?
What you have learned about homosexualy as you were growg up will affect whether you nsir engagg homosexual acts to be sirable or disgtg. Some people might argue that if you are “geilly gay” but the thought of homosexualy nseat you, then you jt haven’t accepted the fact that you really are gay.
That argument is based on the assumptn that sexual preference is purely blogil; therefore, has no place a discsn about the possible of homosexualy. In 1991, a study published the journal Science seemed to show that the hypothalam, which ntrols the release of sex hormon om the puary gland, gay men differs om the hypothalam straight men.