Study recruiting 1,000 pairs of gay brothers to donate DNA

[cboy4]

Is there a gay gene?



September 26, 2006

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Researchers at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute are hoping to identify one or more genes that help determine sexual orientation.

"We hope our study will dispel mythologies and ignorance about homosexuality," said Dr. Alan Sanders, a Northwestern University psychiatrist who is directing the five-year study.

But some gays are wary. They fear discovering gay genes could lead to efforts to "cure" homosexuality, or to prenatal tests for gay genes.

Researchers say that's not their intent.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/72296,CST-NWS-gaygene26.article



Yes, let's hope this study is being done in good faith because I have mixed emotions about anything that's potentially being conducted under the true guise of trying to find out "what's wrong" with us.

Maybe that's just my usual suspicious mind in action (of course, one becomes suspicious about everything with this atrocious excuse of a president and equally repulsive GOP running the show.)

However, I can absolutely envision talk of a "cure" in the future.....and I can definitely see the "results" being twisted into a typical right wing fundamentalist christian conservative wedge issue, or worse. I hope not.

[xchrom]

1. never fear -- what ever cure they come up with -- i can guarentee you --

that in a boy scout tent some where some boys will discover the joy of gay sex -- and the horse will be back out of the barn.

[cboy4]

2. LOL

:)

[ruggerson]

3. I think it's a great idea

let's finally definitively prove what we all know to be fact - that being gay is a normal, genetic occurrence in a minority of the population.

And then watch the motherfuckers on the religious right implode because their money making gimmick has been yanked out from under them.