Why are people gay and lesbians?

Why are people gay and lesbians?
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Genetics are one possibility. Some people are gay and believethey were born that way.Studies have shown that there is a clear physiologicaldifference between the way the brains of gay people process sensoryinputs and those of straight or even bi people. It has been foundthrough brain imaging that gay men process smells completelydifferently to straight men and that the patterns observed are farcloser to those seen in straight women.Our understanding of genetics have changed in recent years toaccept the possibility of environmental factors impacting upon theexpression of certain genes and this combined with the known factthat some rats are born gay during periods of over populationsuggest a clear and obvious evolutionary reason for a gayness toexist. If one views evolution through the selfi
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