The author of the book Unprotected allowed her identity to be revealed on the Dr. Laura show yesterday. She is Miriam Grossman, M.D., a campus psychiatrist at UCLA. She told me in an interview in preparation for the article I wrote about the book that she was initially quite afraid of reprisals. She has now…

A little Evangelical “inside baseball…” USA Today had an op-ed yesterday by a minister named Oliver Thomas taking the position that the morality of homosexuality depends on what science learns about the factors which may cause it. I suppose that is the first topic for discussion here. I have resisted this argument. One, because I…

Let me know what you think of this format and the new digs. Maybe I’ll have an open house after Thanksgiving…

Fruitfly research is pretty hot stuff and this new study is sure to find its way on to late night television. Fighting Like a Girl or Boy Determined by Gene in Fruit Flies BOSTON, Nov. 20 /Standard Newswire/ — Fighting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardwired into fruit fly neurons, according…

Michael Bailey is quoted extensively in this article regarding his research on gaydar. Social psychologists study stereotypes and the “I knew it all along” feeling (e.g., I just knew he was gay). I suppose I have furthered a few stereotypes by my support of Daryl Bem’s Exotic Becomes Erotic theory. I had to chuckle a…