why are people gay?

Question

i am really confuse as i have been told two different things can someone help?
i was told that people are only homosexual because of a genetic fault meaning you have some of the wrong chromosones. then i was told that you are born the same as everyone else and something in your life turns you homosexual.
could someone please help out?

Answer 1

I personally believe that people are born gay. You cant decide to turn gay just like you cant decide to turn straight.

Answer 2

The latest scientific evidence suggests that is is a combination of nature AND nurture. It is not an inborn trait, but seems to be a combination of temperament and social forces. People seem to be raised gay, not born that way. This is why some gay men used to be straight, married and with children, and some former gay men turn heterosexual, and some people turn bi-sexual. If people were born gay, then how do you explain bisexuality?

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...The scientific attempts to demonstrate that homosexual attraction is biologically determined have failed. For example, a study conducted in 1991 by psychologist Michael Bailey and psychiatrist Richard Pillard, attempted to show that homosexuality occurs more frequently among identical twins than fraternal twins. However, this study actually provides support for environmental factors versus genetics! If homosexuality were in the genetic code, then both of the twins would have been homosexual 100 percent of the time, yet this was not the case.

The well-known Simon LeVay brain study of 1991, which tried to find differences in the hypothalamuses (a very small part of the brain) of homosexual and heterosexual men, found no evidence that there is any genetic cause for homosexuality. Nothing in the study showed that gay men are born that way. Other prominent researchers have concluded that there is no evidence to support a biological theory, but rather that homosexuality could be best explained by an alternative model where “temperamental and personality traits interact with the familial and social milieu as the individual’s sexuality emerges.”

[“The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science,” “In Their Own Words: Gay Activists Speak About Science, Morality, Philosophy” by Dean Byrd, Ph.D., Shirley E. Cox, Ph.D., Jeffrey W. Robinson, Ph.D. http://www.narth.com/docs/innate.html, 30 September 2002. William Byne and Bruce Parsons, “Human Sexual Orientation: The Biologic Theories Reappraised.” Archives of General Psychiatry 50, no. 3.]

Answer 3

you see, when a child is in the womb some things happen to start the process of forming this small being into what will result (The Gods willing) in a great person. It is determined if they will be male/female (sometimes these wires get crossed), hair color, eye color as well as other physical characteristics and personality traits that they take from either parent. At some time during all of these forks in the genetic road, sexual orientation is brought up. The baby then flips a coin.....heads she goes straight and tails she goes gay. That is how gay baby are created.

I truly hope that the stupidity of this answer comes close to matching the question.

Answer 4

Well the misconception you have received is that you're born the same as everyone and then turn homosexual. There is no 'turning'. This is something that usually christians use due to their ignorant knowledge of homosexuality and the human body in general. They believe that you can be 'healed' of homosexuality with treatment. I am not homosexual, but I have many friends who are and this is by far the most ignorant statement that anyone could ever utter and has obviously caused confusion to those who aren't sure. Ask anyone that is homosexual if they chose to be gay, they'd probably laugh at you.

Answer 5

well i wouldn't say that their is something wrong with my genetics, but that my genetics are just a Little different. i am the same as every other guy i am just attracted to other men thats all.

Answer 6

Scientific researchers who specialize in human sexuality have shown that homosexuality is innate and linked to biology and genetics.

An October 2004 scientific research publication stated that scientists at the University of Padua have found that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men. This fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men, and keeps the “gay” genetic factors in circulation.

A study published in Human Genetics in February 2006 examined X chromosome inactivation in mothers of gay sons and mothers whose sons were not gay. Researchers found extreme differences between women who had gay sons and women who did not.

Another scientific study said that researchers have known for years that a man's likelihood of being gay rises with the number of older biological brothers, but the new study found that the so-called "fraternal birth order effect" persists even if gay men were raised away from their biological families. Anthony F. Bogaert, Ph.D., professor at Brock University, said "The research suggests that the development of sexual orientation is influenced before birth."

The older-brother effect was constant regardless of whether the men were raised with natural, adopted or stepbrothers. It also didn't matter if they weren't raised with their biological mothers. If gay younger brothers and older brothers don't have the same home environments, what do they have in common? "They shared the same uterus, the same womb, the same mother," Bogaert said.

Answer 7

I don't believe anyone has actually proved either, but as a gay, I made no choice to be gay. I have never been attracted to the opposite sex, which to me, means it's genetic.

Answer 8

No gay person is going to admit that they became gay just because they experimented with it and liked it. They will always tell you that they cannot help it, that they were born that way, because that is what they want you to believe.

Answer 9

it's genetic in true cases, but not because of a fault. the chromosomes are not wrong, just different. in some cases it's circumstantial, but i think that's more for companionship rather than actually being gay.

Answer 10

There's all kinds of scientific mumbo-jumbo floating around out there. Really, who cares? I have no clue what made me gay or why. I just know that I am, and that's dandy enough for me.