Born Gay

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is genetic’…I did not”
Simon LeVay in The Sexual Brain, p.122 (qtd. In What Causes Homosexuality, p. 23)
The neuroscientist, LeVay, conducted a study of the brains of corpses, which included 6 women, 19 homosexual males and 16 straight men. In the process of conducting his examination, he found a small area of the brain that was the same size in homosexual males and women. The INAH-3 was larger in straight men. These finding suggested that this could be the evidence that would link genetics and homosexuality. (Calvery p. 23) This was the information that reached the media and that the scientific community embraced.
However, there were 19 homosexual men who died of complications due to the HIV virus, 6 heterosexual men who died from AIDS complications, and the 6 women had died of various causes. The most obvious problem with LeVay's study is that all the homosexual men died after a long period of being infected with HIV, which could have affected the size of the INAH-3, addressed by ...

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