the Guppie Life

June is certainly the gayest month yet in 2008!

• Last weekend was D.C. Capital Pride. I didn’t go (and have never been) but I heard it was a fun weekend.
• Gay people got married in California this week, some of them for the second time. (Congratulations to Sam and Bronson! Do those two travel with their own personal lighting crew or what?)
• The L.A. Times wrote about research on gay brains, and it caused quite a stir.
  

  The area of the brain that processes emotions also looked much the same in gay men and straight women — and both groups have higher rates of depressive disorders than heterosexual men, researchers said.

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  Vilain said his hunch was that the entire brain was not feminized because “gay men have a number of masculine traits that are not present in women.” For example, he said, men regardless of sexual orientation tend to be interested in casual sex and are stimulated by sexually suggestive images.

  So, gay men sleep around, but then we feel really bad about it afterward? … Actually that sounds about right.

• More discussion of gay brains at the Broken Cupid blog.
• Slate magazine took the gay brains idea a step further. If sexual orientation is caused by chemistry, people are going to want to change that chemistry. Do parents have a right to give their children vaccinations against being gay?
  

  If the idea of chemically suppressing homosexuality in the womb horrifies you, I have bad news: You won’t be in the room when it happens. Parents control medical decisions, and surveys indicate that the vast majority of them would be upset to learn that their child was gay. Already, millions are screening embryos and fetuses to eliminate those of the “wrong” sex. Do you think they won’t screen for the “wrong” sexual orientation, too?

  Liberals are slow to see what’s coming. They’re still fighting the culture war. The Toronto Star, like other papers, finds a neuroscientist who thinks the new study “should erode the moral judgments often made against homosexual preferences and rebut any argument that it is a mere a lifestyle choice.” Well, yes. But then what? The reduction of homosexuality to neurobiology doesn’t mean your sexual orientation can’t be controlled. It just means the person controlling it won’t be you.

• Gallup released data from a new poll that says Americans are evenly split amongst those who think gay sex is morally acceptable and those who are in denial about how utterly hot it is.
  
  
• Chris Ford of The Generation Y Conservative blog, a fellow member of the Brazen Careerist Network, shared his very special thoughts on gay marriage. It caused quite the controversy. Over 75 comments so far! My advice to people who oppose gay marriage: Don’t get one.