Quote (chickenblood @ Aug 8 2011 02:10pm)
That may be true, but that didn't answer the question of whether he was ridiculed into it or if he has always been gay.
Twin and family research shows that sexual orientation is 50% genetically. The other 50% comes from the development inside the womb. There is no evidence for any suggestion that upbringing after birth will cause children to become homosexual. Children who grow up with homosexual parents are not more often homosexuals themselves.
The main difference physically is found in the hypothalamus. In 1990 Dick Swaab et al found out that the biological clock inside the hypothalamus, a part of the brain heavily involved in sexual orientation, was twice as large for homosexual men.
Later on using scanning, functional differences inside the hypothalamus have been found in relation to sexual orientation. Ivanka Savic uses feromones for her research. She found out that male feromones activate the hypothalamus of homosexual men and heterosexual women in the same way, and the hypothalamus of homosexual men does not react to female feromones.
There are many structural and functional differences in relation to sexual orientation, and they emerge inside the womb, during the second half of the pregnancy.