IS THERE A GAY BRAIN?

This is today's question picked up from the Washington Post by our local newspaper, The (New Hampshire) Concord Monitor. The findings were based on MRI studies that compared the brains of 25 straight men and 25 straight women with those of 20 gay men and 20 gay women. The findings - fasten your seat belts - gay men tended to have brains more like those of straight women than straight men. Gay women's brains tended to be more like those of straight men. Whoopee!!

I'm very distressed because there are a ton of macho, overbearing and despicable straight men whose brains I'd do anything to avoid, let alone being held up as a match for my brain.

In some research circles, the findings are viewed as an explanation for why gay men respond to emotional stimuli as a straight woman would and gay women's emotional responses are more like those of a straight man. It also shows why gay men have verbal and other cognitive skills that tend to be more like women's.

This confirms why like attracts like and why same-sex partners get along so much better than heterosexual couples - they're not always playing mind games, vying for power in the relationship and are sympathetic to one another's feelings. These are my findings after been in a gay relationship with Kay for almost 30 years and having had two failed opposite-sex marriages. Amen.