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Growing Up Queer in the Age of Apps

From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Street and Preston Highway in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly for the better part of a decade. Then I create out those two roads ran parallel to each other. Then we moved to a other house. I did eventually learn our new home’s location and nearest intersection. I did not, however, pass my driver’s license try until my fourth attempt, six months after my 16th birthday. My parents were not surprised. I had never been a confident driver nor a helpful passenger-seat navigator.

The month after the family Garmin GPS was stolen at a gas station was one of the most disorienting of my adolescence. I was an hour late to SAT prep class, a 10-minute control from our home. My mother had printed directions for me, knowing there was little chance I could retain the right-left-right of the route, but I missed my exit on the highway. Suddenly, I had no plan where I was. I couldn’t see the right offramp. I found myself adrift at 60 miles per hour until I eventually turned around.

I own always been lousy with directions and lost. My mother has a theor

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Gay Gene,’ Large Genome Study Finds

A new study seems to firmly bury the idea of a so-called “gay gene.” Scientists looked at the genes of nearly a half million people and couldn’t locate any genetic variations that could reliably predict someone’s same-sex behavior. Rather, they argue, our sexual preferences are influenced by a complex mix of our genes, environment, and animation experiences.

The international research team, which includes scientists from Sweden, Denmark, the UK, and the U.S., looked at genetic data unhurried from earlier studies and projects, including from the consumer DNA testing organization 23andMe. In total, just over 470,000 people were included.

“There is no free gay gene but rather the contribution of many small genetic effects scattered across the genome.”

The researchers performed a type of analysis known as a genome-wide association study. These studies sweep through the genomes of people and look for any variations in genes—also called markers—that could be linked to whatever other variables they’re testing for. In this study, that variable was whether a person had reported ever having sex with someone of the

Read The Top Gay Speculative Fiction of the Year!

Want to search some strange recent worlds that are genuinely new? Then you’re in luck—because Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Queer Speculative Fiction has just been published!

Contributor Craig Laurance Gidney posted the table of contents, which includes some of our favorite LGBT authors—including former io9 contributor Katharine Duckett! Here’s the entire TOC:

“The Love of the Emperor Is Divine” by Tom Cardamone
“The Vampire of Xanthos” by Andrew Warburton
“The True Alchemist” by Sonya Taaffe
“The Mortuaries” by Katharine Duckett
“What Glistens Back” by Sunny Moraine
“Passion, Appreciate a Voice—That Buds” by Steve Berman
“True North” by Chaz Brenchley
“The Oily Man” by Alex Jeffers
“Werewolves of Northland” by Patrick Pink
“Notes for ‘The Barn in the Wild’” by Paul Tremblay
“Conjuring Shadows” by Craig L. Gidney
“The God Within” by Damien Kelly
“A Gift in Time” by Maggie Clark

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(01-15-2019, 07:44 PM)extherian Wrote: [ -> ]I suspect this is another one of those cases where we don't object as much as we think we do and are actually talking past each other.

Could be - although I haven't really been clear on just what my position on these things is (beyond that good, evil, morality, rights, etc.) beyond that they are just made up concepts used to influence people's behavior - rather like the tooth fairy or Santa Claus.

Let me clarify:

In my view, enlightened self-interest and cost-benefit analysis are sufficient to achieve any and all of the supposed effects of the concepts most people call 'good' and 'evil'. To use the case of seeing gay couples in public:

As a gay man, it is in my self-interest for homosexuality and same-sex couples to be accepted in society. Since efforts to privilege any particular community over others in terms of what behaviors they can and can't participate in tend to create feelings of 'unfairness' and discontent (that can translate into social unrest that can end up causing me more problems than I feel like dealing with) it is also in my self-interest to support the idea that other

Disney’s 8 ‘First Openly Gay’ Characters, Ranked (by How Embarrassed Disney Should Feel)

Disney has claimed the idea of a "First" queer nature in its movies so many times, it's difficult not to be frustrated.

6) McGregor, Jungle Cruise

Given that we once again gave Jack Whitehall’s nature the ballyhooed “First Gay!!!” press round earlier this year in spite of it releasing after all these other attempts (thanks, global pandemic!) Disney should probably still be embarrassed a little bit, at least. That and the fact it tookthreetrailers for him to get a line of dialogue, but Whitehall’s McGregor at least getting a scene that humanized his relationship with his sister because of the fact she didn’t abandon him for creature queer like the unwind of his family—even if the scene did boogie around saying the pos “gay”—was actually pretty compact, if fleeting. Disney should probably be more embarrassed by the colonialist overtones his white suit and Panama hat convey in the context of everything else Jungle Cruise has got going on, aesthetically. Hooray, queer people can be imperialists too!