Via Sullivan, William Saletan at Slate.com peruses a new study on “sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality,” which concludes, bascially, that it’s inborn - and for a reason, too.
Saletan:
It starts with four curious patterns. First, male homosexuality occurs at a low but stable frequency in a wide range of societies. Second, the female relatives […]

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Ruh-roh.
So you might have seen the study out earlier this week, in which scientists showed a difference in the brain patterns of gays and straights. William Saletan runs it down in Slate:
The sample consisted of 25 straight men, 25 straight women, 20 gay men, and 20 lesbians. In overall symmetry and amygdala activity, the brains […]

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I’m not quite sure why I can’t find this online anywhere, but if you have a chance check out Peter DeCoursey’s column on the editorial page of today’s Intell, where he writes about how state Sen. Vince Fumo used a little legislative ju-jitsu to defeat Sen. Mike Brubaker’s “Hate The Gay” bill:
There were at least nine Senate […]

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So, I’ve held off commenting on this, state Sen. Mike Brubaker’s withdrawal of his Keep The Gay Down bill, because I’m coming to hate these threads - they always devolve into exactly the same thing.
But, the more I think about this - the more I begin to think that Brubaker, and maybe the state GOP […]

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Hey, maybe when Sen. Mike Brubaker’s done making sure Teh Dreaded Queers don’t get hitched he can line up a few one-way cruises.

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Now I understand completely…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFxk7glmMbo

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My ears were burning, and now I see why.
Joe Hainthaler has a piece over at his place suggesting a compromise on gay marriage - though, re-reading his post several times, I’m not sure exactly what his proposed compromise consists of. Letting the public vote on it? Isn’t that exactly what Brubaker wants to do?
There’s a […]

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Why must the wingnuttery always, always, always emanate from Lancaster County?
Because you look at the state of the commonwealth, you see economic issues, you see the plight of our cities, you see questions about gaming revenues and tax issues. So clearly, we can understand why state Sen. Mike Brubaker should make a priority out of: […]

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And now to our latest chapter in the ongoing saga of Falafel Bill O’Reilly, in which everyone’s favorite right-wing buffoon is all bent out of shape because Dumbledore is gay:
O’REILLY: Here’s — you can talk about this on your radio show tomorrow. There are millions of Americans who feel that the media and the educational […]

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Sullivan posts an e-mail from an evangelical reader who recently had a friend “come out” to him. The writer straddles the line, or tries to, in saying that he believes homosexuality is wrong, a sin, but that this won’t make him abandon his friend; and indeed, when the writer’s “Christianist” sister demanded to know if […]

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This is interesting. Since the Larry Craig incident there’s been an uptick in interest in one Laud Humphreys, whose 1970 work “The Tearoom Trade” was one of the first attempts to study, and explain, what happens anonymously in those men’s room stalls.
Humphreys noted that a great many of the men who got their jollies in […]

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Pericles thinks I’m milking this. Which I am. Because it’s hilarious. Which brings us to Dennis Perrin’s “Savior of the Men’s Room,” a rather inspiring - or something - tale of “Straight Man” Tucker Carlson’s bathroom heroics:
STRAIGHT MAN: Say there, fellas! Why the waterworks?
BOY 1: There’s a weird guy in there, Straight Man! He looked at me […]

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You might have seen that the wingers are baying for Larry Craig’s blood - or at least his Senate seat - while remaining curiously quiet about Sen. David Vitter’s little indiscretions. Aside from the fact that if Vitter resigned a Democratic governor would get to appoint his replacement - and Craig can safely be thrown to […]

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Following the Larry Craig story, it occurs to me that what he’s accused of doing - cruising for gay sex is a public toilet - is the very thing I wrote about a couple months back at Long’s Park.

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Not saying this couldn’t happen to a Democratic Senator/Rep, but it does seem rather odd that the party of “Hate teh Gay” seems so replete with, you know, gays.
How much self-loathing has to be involved for a closeted gay man to stump publicly, and vote for, anti-gay legislation?

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This is hilarious, and can’t possibly be true. Except it seems to be.
Back in 1994 - Blame the Clenis! - military leaders actually appear to have investigated the possibility of building a bomb that turned enemy soldiers queer:
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal […]

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As per yesterday’s discussion on our new Surgeon General nominee, Mr. Harriet Miers (h/t citydweller), the question comes up, how legitimate is it to think that teh gay can be cured?
And it seems to all hinge upon how you define “gay.”
Are we defining gay in terms of specific homosexual acts? In other words, if you […]

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