Word: levay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homophobic to concede that leading a homosexual lifestyle may be a choice, and that it may not be right for everyone. As neuroscientist and gay activist Simon LeVay notes in his book Queen Science, "In the end one has to respect an individual's autonomy, at least in the sphere of personal activity that does not harm others." While it's probably true that those who believe that gays have no choice whatsoever are most likely to support gay rights, if this is not the case, anti-gay forces are in an indefensible position nonetheless. After all, our rights...
...Simon LeVay, Ph.D. is the author of several books, including "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality...
...first I replied, a bit smugly, "Well, if you followed the recent developments in this kind of research, the Simon LeVay hypothalamus study and all that, it was obvious that this was the direction in which we were headed. Blah, blah, blah...
...Simon LeVay, who won wide publicity for an analysis of differences in brain anatomies between straight and gay men, acknowledges that the brains he studied were of AIDS victims, and thus he cannot be sure that what he saw was . genetic rather than the result of disease or some aspect of gay life. Says LeVay: "This new work and the studies of twins are two lines of evidence pointing in the same direction. But the DNA evidence is much stronger than the twin studies." Dr. Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and co-author...
Other scientists presented other strategies by which to study biological differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals, involving the structure of a given part of the brain. Levay studied differences in the size of a certain part of the brain's hypothalamus which is thought to regulate sexual behavior...