---------- Forwarded message --------- Date: Sen, 27 Mei 2019 pukul 16.48 Subject: Taiwan made history on Friday May 24, 2019
*Taiwan made history on Friday (May 24) with Asia's first legal gay weddings, * *as same-sex couples tied the knot in jubilant and emotional scenes. * *About a dozen couples were the first to register their marriages at this government office in Taipei.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfGew6Q0y9M https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/taiwan-holds-first-gay-weddings-lgbt-marriages-11560518?cid=youtube_cna_social_29012018_cna *Largest study of gay brothers homes in on 'gay genes'* 17 November 2014 A genetic analysis of 409 pairs of gay brothers, including sets of twins, has provided the strongest evidence yet that gay people are born gay. The study clearly links sexual orientation in men with two regions of the human genome that have been implicated before, one on the X chromosome and one on chromosome 8. The finding is an important contribution to mounting evidence that being gay is biologically determined rather than a lifestyle choice. In some countries, such as Uganda <https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25121-anti-gay-uganda-claims-sexual-orientation-is-a-choice>, being gay is still criminalised, and some religious groups believe that gay people can be “treated” to make them straight <https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22322-california-governor-bans-gay-cures> .. “It erodes the notion that sexual orientation is a choice,” says study leader Alan Sanders <http://www.northshore.org/research/investigators/sanders-alan-r-md/> of the NorthShore Research Institute in Evanston, Illinois. The region on the X chromosome picked out by the study, called Xq28, was originally identified in 1993 <https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13918830-300-gene-hunters-sound-warning-over-gay-link> by Dean Hamer of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, but attempts to validate the finding since have been mixed. The other region picked out is in the twist in the centre of chromosome 8. Known as 8q12, it was first signposted in 2005 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15645181>. READ MORE https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26572-largest-study-of-gay-brothers-homes-in-on-gay-genes/ WIKIPEDIA **Homosexual behavior in animals** is sexual behavior among non-human species that is interpreted as homosexual or bisexual <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality>. This may include same-sex sexual activity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour>, courtship <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship>, affection <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affection>, pair bonding <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_bond>, and parenting among same-sex animal pairs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_parenting_in_animals> ..[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-ReferenceA-1> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-ReferenceB-2> [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-Bailey_2009-3> Various forms of this are found in every major geographic region and every major animal group. The sexual behavior of non-human animals takes many different forms, even within the same species, though homosexual behavior is best known from social species. According to Bagemihl (1999), same-sex behavior (comprising courtship, sexual, pair-bonding, and parental activities) has been documented in over 450 species of animals worldwide.[10] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-Bagemihl_1-10> *The nature or nurture* The observation of homosexual behavior in animals can be seen as both *an argument for and against the acceptance* of homosexuality in humans, and has been used especially against the claim that it is a *peccatum contra naturam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccatum_contra_naturam>* ("sin against nature"). For instance, homosexuality in animals was cited by the American Psychiatric Association <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Association> and other groups in their amici curiae <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amici_curiae> brief to the United States Supreme Court <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court> in *Lawrence v. Texas <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas>*, which ultimately struck down the sodomy laws <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws> of 14 states.[19] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-Love_That_Dare_Not_Squeak-19> [20] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#cite_note-20> read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
