Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are the first gay couple known in history. Their tomb was found in 1964 by Archaeologists in Egypt. They were dated back to 2380 to 2320 B.C. (NY Times, 2005). Therefore, it’s clear that homosexuality is not a new thing; it’s not a phase that goes out with time. Homosexuality is controversial among people with different ages and different backgrounds; for instance, Harvey Milk was elected as a member of San Francisco Board of supervisors. In addition, Mary Cheney who’s the daughter of the former vice president Dick Cheney. Moreover, people tend to act differently among homosexuals, or its concept and origin. Many people think of homosexuality as a matter of choice, but many also believe it’s genetic and you can’t change who you are. The first group act based on their beliefs and disregard homophiles of their rights; this group is clearly the stronger one ― as we see and read in today’s media. On the other hand, the activists are struggling to gain full recognition from all people and justice departments. On this brief essay I will try my best to be unbiased and write about homosexuality in terms of: origin, recognition, and rights.
Roger Gorski and Laura Allen, studied male-female brains’ differences in rats for years. "Laura showed that the INAH3 area in humans was, on average, more than twice as large in men as in women; now, INAH3 is in a part of the hypothalamus known to be involved in directing typical male sex behavior, such as attraction to females. So I thought it reasonable to speculate about dimorphism by sexual orientation as well as gender." (Discover Archives March, 1994). These findings motivated Dr. Simon LeVay to conduct an experiment on 19 homosexual men, 16 heterosexual men, and 6 women. After autopsying each brain and marking it anonymously to avoid prejudice, he found that the percentage in straight men is almost double those in gay men. (Discover Archives March, 1994).
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