The HuffingonPost has up a piece about a recently published study that suggests that whiny, insecure kids generally grow up to be conservative and confident kids grow up to be liberal. Sounds like liberal proganda, doesn’t it? But here’s why it makes sense—insecure kids are less comfortable with ambiguities, so are less likely to […]

A small study released yesterday suggested that mothers who have multiple gay sons process their extra X chromosome differently than other mothers. In women who conceive boys, one of their two X chromosomes is usually inactivated at random (since the XY males only need one of ‘em). In the study group however, a […]

For the second year, officials at a German zoo have tried to seduce their gay male penguins with female penguins from Sweden. And for the second year, the boys were having none of it. “The Swedes are rather standoffish,” said a zoo spokeswoman. Sure, blame the girls.
Penguins at zoo stay gay [The Advocate]

A groundbreaking lesbian activist, author, and psychotherapist, Berzon passed away yesterday from breast cancer. Back in the days when homosexuality was still classified a disorder, she was one of the first therapists to talk and write about maintaining gay relationships and combating homophobia. Among her books are Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That […]

We missed his passing last week: Dr. Biber, 85, was a small-town Colorado surgeon who was an American pioneer in sex-reassignment surgery. Among the first to perform the procedure in 1969, he transformed Trinidad, Colo. into the “sex-change capital of the world,” educating his colleagues and neighbors about gender dysphoria along the way. […]

(Via Queerty) A Norwegian gay magazine recently published a study that claimed that lesbians are twice as likely to smoke as straight gals. No word if those figures only apply to Norweigian dykes, but there was no similar disparity between gay and straight men. So why the difference? Said one expert: “The […]

A few new things we learned this weekend:
That in July, a group of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology discovered what they claim is a tenth planet.
That they nicknamed this possible planet (which, incidentally, is bigger than Pluto) Xena.
That they’ve now discovered that Xena has a moon, and have christened it, naturally, Gabrielle.
We’re […]

One of the surprises in a government survey released today was that a full 14 percent of women aged 18 to 29 reported having at least one sexual encounter with another woman. Yet only four percent call themselves lesbians. Reserchers have loosely titled this phenomenon “the Jennifer Beals effect.”

Latching on to yet another wholesome thing and tainting it with their right-wing agenda, Christian conservatives have, according to an article in today’s Science Times, glommed on to the March of the Penguins as a parable of the human path toward righteousness. Not to mention that many say it proves of the theory of “intelligent […]

If you have some free time, check out the Boston Globe’s extra-long piece on sexuality and gay genetics. It starts with a look at 7-year old identical twin brothers–one is undoubtedly straight and one already seems pretty gay. Then it delves into the long, politically-charged history of research into sexual orientation. The […]