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Are we born gay? [message #55581]

Mon, 26 January 2009 20:08

RichardG

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Location: UK
Registered: December 2007
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I've been lurking quietly for a while as is my wont.I thought I would share a recent experience which gave a new insight into the question in the title.

Last week I attended the funeral of a recently-made friend who had died suddenly and relatively young. My friend, after youthful heterosexual experimentation, was enthusiastically gay and made no secret of it. However he had an identical twin brother who was host and celebrant of the secular ceremony.He is not homosexual and married with a gaggle of daughters. He referred to his brothers gayness quite naturally and without the slightest suggestion that he might be even remotely bi-sexual.

It just made me think again about that age old question of are we born gay. No doubt someone somewhere has done a study of the sexuality of twins but this was my first experience of identical twins with totally different sexuality.

		Are we born gay? By: RichardG on Mon, 26 January 2009 20:08
		Re: Are we born gay? By: timmy on Mon, 26 January 2009 20:47
		Re: Are we born gay? By: Nigel on Mon, 26 January 2009 21:52
		Re: Are we born gay? By: acam on Mon, 26 January 2009 22:37
		Re: Are we born gay? By: NW on Tue, 27 January 2009 12:29
		Re: Are we born gay? By: timmy on Tue, 27 January 2009 14:35
		Re: Are we born gay? By: NW on Tue, 27 January 2009 15:24
		Re: Are we born gay? By: timmy on Tue, 27 January 2009 15:35
		Re: Are we born gay? By: NW on Tue, 27 January 2009 17:18
		Re: Are we born gay? By: e on Tue, 27 January 2009 17:48
		Re: Are we born gay? By: acam on Tue, 27 January 2009 14:41
		Re: Are we born gay? By: NW on Mon, 26 January 2009 23:22
		Re: Are we born gay? By: e on Tue, 27 January 2009 02:18
		Re: Are we born gay? By: acam on Tue, 27 January 2009 15:01
		Re: Are we born gay? By: e on Tue, 27 January 2009 16:10
		Re: Are we born gay? By: timmy on Tue, 27 January 2009 16:55
		Re: Are we born gay? By: arich on Tue, 27 January 2009 19:23
		Re: Are we born gay? By: acam on Tue, 27 January 2009 23:15
		Re: Are we born gay? By: e on Wed, 28 January 2009 01:28

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