Born This Way?

Those who are outside the homosexual community feel that gay men are persuaded into homosexuality. Although some have been influenced by peers or encounters, the majority gay men are simply just born that way.
Studies have suggested that gay men actually inherit their sexuality through genes.

A team at the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Biochemistry reported in the journal Science that families of 76 gay men included a much higher proportion of homosexual male relatives than found in the general population. Intriguingly, almost all the disproportion was on the mother's side of the family.

This statement prompted researchers to look at chromosomes. Men get an X from their mother and a Y from their father. As the family trees suggested that male homosexuality may be inherited from the mothers X chromosome.
A 20 year old gay male of the University of Mississippi says that being gay is not something he can change. When asked, “How long have you been homosexual”, He replied, “I’ve always had a feeling, but it wasn’t until 7th grade when I really acted on it.” He has a close relationship with his mother and he says they share many of the same characteristics. “I have not directly come out to her,” he says, “but I know she knows that I’m gay.”

Dr Glenn Wilson, reader in personality at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and Dr Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist at the University of East London, declare that “the accumulation of evidence from independent laboratories across the world has shown that the biological differences between gay and straight people cannot be ignored. Our sexual preference is a fundamental and immutable component of our human nature.”

Wilson and Rahman ’s feel that there is no single gay gene, but genes do contribute to homosexuality; and that there could be a possible exposure of sex hormones to a fetus that can also have effects on sexuality.

Whether homosexuality is inherited or not, gays feel that it is not a choice or a disease. It is their identity; felt for as far back as their memory can reach. To them, it is not a behavior, or just a sexual preference. It is who they are as people.