2007-02-15 20:00:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Do you guys and gals have any sources to back up the fact that being gay is based on heredity?
2007-02-15 20:11:49 · update #1
i think they chose that life style...........on many occassions
2007-02-15 20:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Vinesh K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure everyone will disagree with me, but this is based on people I've actually met:
It's a fact that some people are born gay, and some people choose to live that lifestyle due to traumatic life experiences.
Also, for everyone who reads this, when I say some choose to live that lifestyle, that doesn't mean they somehow changed their genes to make themselves gay. It means they consciously decided to live the gay lifestyle.
It's like anything else. You may be born a guy who feel's he really is a woman, but society pushes him to act like a man, and so he chooses to live the mans lifestyle even though he's really a natural transgendered woman trapped in a mans body.
Or a gay man who's pushed to live a straight life. People choose to live lifestyles they aren't born to be all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that they where born one particular way first.
2007-02-15 20:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not go ask a gay person? Chances are you know dozens. If you think you don't know any gay people, you're wrong. You do. You just don't know that they're gay.
I'm gay. I have been gay as long as I can remember. I had crushes on boys starting in kindergarten. I always knew I was 'different.' I am glad to say that my parents never instilled in me a fear of being gay, or a bias against it. When I came out to them they were both very understanding and loving.
In my experience with lesbian and gay people I have known, women's sexuality seems to be more fluid than men's sexuality. I have known more women who have been in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships than I have known men.
People think that men choose to be gay at some point in their lives. I daresay this is very rarely, if ever, the case. What you are seeing is someone who is sick of lying to himself and to the world around him. The world around us assumes and expects that everyone will be heterosexual. It can be a huge burden for someone who is gay to feel that he has to pretend to be straight. What a relief it is to finally stop lying, and to start live a more authentic life.
There are programs, mostly fundamental Xtian-sponsored, that purport to 'heal' or 'cure' people of being gay. What these programs do not report is that the recidivism rate of these programs is something close to 99%. It's like trying to 'heal' someone of having blue eyes. I had a friend who went through such a program. It made a very scared person even more miserable. And it didn't do a single thing to change his sexuality.
2007-02-15 20:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by pasdeberet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any sources, but I do believe that a person's sexuality is predetermined. I don't think you can inherit homosexuality, but you can learn from characteristics. For example, if you see a parent acting gay, you are most likely to copy that behaviour, the same as any other behaviour.
2007-02-15 20:15:45 · answer #4 · answered by Claire H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are born gay. It's genetic.
2007-02-15 20:03:45 · answer #5 · answered by Agent319.007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋