Trying to cater to both the homophobes and the human beings on FFL, I present one article for each. The first is for those fearful of gays, and provides a hint as to how to determine whether someone of the WRONG sex is attracted to you. Of course, to use this technique, you have to get close enough to them to gaze deeply into their eyes. :-)
Whether you're gay, straight or somewhere else on the spectrum, the truth of who attracts you could be in your eyes. Pupil dilation is an accurate indicator of sexual orientation, a new study finds. When people look at erotic images and become aroused <http://www.livescience.com/19755-porn-shut-visual-brain.html> , their pupils open up in an unconscious reaction that could be used to study orientation and arousal without invasive genital measurements. The new study is first large-scale experiment to show that pupil dilation matches what people report feeling turned on by, said study researcher Ritch Savin-Williams, a developmental psychologist at Cornell University. "So if a man says he's straight, his eyes are dilating towards women," Savin-Williams told LiveScience. "And the opposite with gay men <http://www.livescience.com/20360-sexual-orientation-visible-face.html> , their eyes are dilating to men." More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/sexual-orientation-eyes-reveal-\ straight-gay_n_1740315.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/sexual-orientation-eyes-reveal\ -straight-gay_n_1740315.html> For those less with less of a...uh...stick up their butts about sexual preference, here's what the larger city a few kilometers away from me was up to this weekend. Amsterdam Gay Pride Draws Revelers To The City's Canals [Amsterdam Gay Pride] AMSTERDAM Hundreds of thousands of gay rights supporters thronged Amsterdam's canals for the city's annual boat float parade, a party marking the high point of Gay Pride week. The event features gay, lesbian and transgender people, many of them scantily-clad, dancing to music on elaborate boat-floats with onlookers cheering them on. This year, Dutch homosexuals of Turkish ancestry had their own float, a first. One massive muscle-bound man on the boat swung a big black sign reading "Turkish, Dutch, Netherlander and Proud." The ancient Westerkerk the church with bells that once comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis has been draped in the rainbow flag that has become a symbol of tolerance and the gay rights movement. Actual homosexual police in uniform joined countless imitators many with cliche fake mustaches, handcuffs and leather hats with their own boat. The boat parade is primarily an exuberant party, one of the biggest festivals of the year in Amsterdam, but the week's program also retains serious elements. Dutch people overwhelmingly support equal rights for gays, and the country became the world's first to fully sanction gay marriages in April 2001.
