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Now that gays can get married in California, it’s worth noting that the brains of gay men and women look like the brains of straight people of the opposite sex. In gay men and straight women, both halves the brain are about the same size. In lesbians and straight men, the right side is larger.

BBC News quotes biologist Qazi Rahman as saying, “As far as I’m concerned there is no argument any more?if you are gay, you are born gay.”

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Two years ago we reported that biologists think that 8% of sheep are gay. A new museum exhibition in Oslo, Norway, documents the fact that 50 species of animals exhibit signs of homosexuality.

In LiveScience.com, Sara Goudarzi quotes museum coordinator Petter Bockman as saying, “Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species, and the phenomenon has been well described for 500 of them.” Almost one-fourth of black swan families have homosexual parents, who raise the chicks from eggs donated by heterosexual pairs.
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When you hear news stories about a battle against homosexualrights, don’t believe it: a recent Florida study shows thatportraying the gay rights conflict as a sharply dividedbattle between homosexuals and social conservatives ignoresthe ambivalent feelings held by the vast majority of peoplein the middle. “The American public appears to be on averageboth supportive and hostile to homosexual and gay rights,depending on the specific question being asked,” saysresearcher Stephen Craig. “Someone might think thathomosexuals should not be discriminated against in theworkplace because of their sexual orientation but at thesame time express the opinion they don’t want gays orlesbians teaching impressionable young kids in the schools.”
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If homosexuality is an unnatural choice, how come so many animals are gay? Gay advocates say if homosexual behavior occurs in animals, it must be natural, and therefore gays should have the same civil rights as heterosexuals. Animal researcher Frans de Waal says, “There has been a certain cultural shyness about admitting it.”

Dinitia Smith writes in the February 7 New York Times about two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, who have been inseparable for six years. Both have rejected female companionship, and females aren’t turned on by them, either.
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