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...pursuing an anti-homophobic politics, I find the quest for homosexuality's origins completely uninteresting. If queerness is biological, homophobes will abort proto-gay fetuses or correct "gay genes" and enlarged hypothalami; if it's constructed, they'll send their proto-gay children to therapy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...study is the second to find some sort of difference between the hypothalami of gay and straight men. Last year a Dutch research team discovered that another group of neurons in this tiny gland is larger in homosexual than in straight men. But some scientists believe this structure governs daily rhythms rather than sexual behavior, so it is difficult to see any significance in the finding. Investigations of right- and left-handedness have also provided evidence of a physiological distinction. Sandra Witelson, a professor of psychiatry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., has found more left-handers among homosexual women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Gay Men Born That Way? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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