News tagged with homosexuality
Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.
Homosexuals' negative feelings about sexuality predict poor mental and sexual health
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have published a study showing that the degree of internalized homonegativity (negative attitude towards homosexuality) among homosexual men is what predicts poor mental and sexual ...
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Study shows male homosexuality can be explained through a specific model of Darwinian evolution
Biology /
Jun 18, 2008 |
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Reporting in this week's PLoS ONE, an Italian research team, consisting of Andrea Camperio Ciani and Giovanni Zanzotto at the University of Padova and Paolo Cermelli at the University of Torino, found that the evolutionary origin ...
Eighteenth century writings of first gay activist discovered
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Excerpts from a 258-year-old book written by what is thought to be the first ever advocate for gay rights have been discovered by a University of Manchester academic. Dr Hal Gladfelder from the School of Arts, Histories and ...
Is there a homosexuality gene?
Biology /
Dec 07, 2006 |
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Although biologists are still far from answering this question, scattered evidence for a possible gene influencing sexual orientation has recently encouraged scientists to map out a guide to future research. Because many ...
It's not easy being gay
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Members of 'sexual minorities' are around twice as likely as heterosexuals to seek help for mental health issues or substance abuse treatment. A model of treatment-seeking behavior, described in the open access journal BMC Ps ...
Over one-third of former American football players had sexual relations with men, study says
Oct 29, 2007 |
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A study of former high-school American Football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men.
Sex, lies and storytelling: The sociology of talk shows
Oct 22, 2008 |
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New research on the manner in which people reveal their most intimate secrets on national TV talk shows will be presented at the University of Leicester on Wednesday October 22.
Therapists still offering treatments for homosexuality despite lack of evidence
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A significant minority of psychiatrists and therapists are still attempting to help lesbian, gay and bisexual clients become heterosexual despite lack of evidence that such treatment is beneficial or even safe, according ...
Houston: The face of America in the next 20 years
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Houston is a reflection of where most of America's cities will be in the next 20 years, according to Stephen Klineberg, Rice University sociologist and director of the annual Houston Area Survey.
In fruit flies, homosexuality is biological but not hard-wired
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Dec 09, 2007 |
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While the biological basis for homosexuality remains a mystery, a team of neurobiologists reports they may have closed in on an answer -- by a nose.
African men who have sex with men are ostracised from HIV services
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa are a hidden, stigmatised group which suffers from a high burden of HIV infection without access to appropriate public health provision, ...
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