What Makes Us Gay?
Is it God, genes, or just because?
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Episode Notes
This month, Christina and Bryan are joined by writer Rumaan Alam. After Pride and Provocations, they talk about the search for the gay gene and whether the endeavor has any positive uses. Then they discuss McKrae Game, the conversion therapist who recently came out as gay, and the challenges of simultaneously feeling pity and pain about this news. Then they close it out with a usual round of the gay agenda.
Items discussed on the show:
• The new study on genetics and same-sex behavior in Science
• “The Largest-Ever Search for a “Gay Gene” Has Results. Are We Ready for the Consequences?” by Jeremy Yoder in Slate
• McKrae Game on The Charlie Vensel Podcast
Gay Agenda
Christina: “The Founder of America’s Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported for Obscenity,” by Reina Gattuso in Atlas Obscura
Rumaan: A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White
Bryan: Mika
This podcast was produced by Daniel Schroeder.
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