By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer ( Read more... )

What makes you gay or straight? Is it personal choice or genes or the way you were raised? While science doesn't have definitive answers, there's been some fascinating and oftentimes controversial research that is beginning to provide some clues.

60 Minutes segments

By Michael McDonough, BBC News website

"I don't want to be gay anymore. When I go out to buy bread, I'm afraid. When the doorbell rings, I think that they have come for me."

That is the fear that haunts Hussein, and other gay men in Iraq.

They say that since the US-led invasion, gays are being killed because of their sexual orientation.

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A 32-year-old Kenyan student, angered by a campaign in Cameroon "outing" top personalities for their alleged homosexuality, speaks anonymously to the BBC News website about his struggle to accept his sexuality.

"When I was as young as 10 or 11 years old I realised that I was drawn more to boys rather than girls ( Read more... )

Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone knows much about what research has been done on the gay, lesbian, and bisexual culture of Japan. I am not so much interested in transexual studies (personally, i think it is folly to too heavily include transexual research in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies. Certainly it should be researched but I think it ( Read more... )

I found this to be very interesting.
So different from Western Gay culture.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20060117zg.htm

And for the Link Phobic the same article in here.

annakas

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Press Association, Saturday November 26, 2005, The Guardian

Members of the UK's Jewish community have become the first mainstream religious organisation to create and authorise a gay marriage service.Liberal Judaism, one of the three major strands of Judaism in Britain, has created a liturgy called Covenant of Love, a service of commitment for ( Read more... )