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Author goes against every major medical organization by saying you can 'change' your homosexuality Eating too much fast food and not sleeping enough turns you gay, a study claims. The study, titled Modern Diet and Stress cause Homosexuality: A hypothesis and a potential therapy, was published by Rita Strakosha who holds an MPS in Clinical Psychology. It is self-published and not peer-reviewed. In her study, Strakosha claims homosexuality and being transgender is caused by our modern diets, mainly the availability and consumption of...

Study asks 1,509 straight people what they think about lesbians Same-sex attraction in women evolved because it’s attractive to men, a bizarre new study found. Entitled ‘The evolution of female same-sex attraction: The male choice hypothesis,’ the study states: ‘A considerable proportion of men desire same-sex attractions in women, and this is one possible reason why many women have such attractions.’ Conducted by Menelaos Apostolou at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the study asked 1,509 heterosexual people a series of questions...

Many even wish their current partners were hairier, the report found, indicating "strong preferences for masculine traits." Having trouble finding a man? You might want to grow a beard. A new study from the University of Queensland in Australia analyzed the sexual attractiveness of men with varying lengths of facial hair — for both men and women. "Including homosexual individuals provides a unique opportunity to investigate whether evolved mating psychologies are specific to the sex of the individual or sex of the...

"Asking youth to accept negative experiences as the only coping strategy potentially exacerbates stress," claims researchers at the University of Arizona. The It Gets Better projects was launched by Dan Savage and Terry Miller in 2010, in response to a chilling number of suicides by LGBT teens facing bullying. Sine then, it’s added more than 50,000 videos from people of all walks of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcVyvg2Qlo But a new study suggests imagining a better future may not be an ideal coping mechanism for...

Beer goggles apparently make straight men interested in just about any person. A new study published in The Journal of Social Psychology, takes a look at the so-called beer goggle phenomenon. In the study, researchers approached 83 heterosexual adults who were walking between bars in a Midwestern town late at night. Vice reports: They had the participants complete a survey, which included questions about how many drinks they’d had that night. In addition, they watched a 40 second video of either a physically...

Could same-sex marriage be beneficial to your mental health? That’s the takeaway from a new study from The University of Washington, part of the national investigation “Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, Sexuality/Gender Study,” which is one of the first to examine same-sex marriage and how it affects mental health. “There were big gaps for health and well-being between married gay couples and gay singles,” says lead author Jayn Goldsen, a research study supervisor at the University of Washington’s School of...

52% of respondents thought that LGBT+ people were 'invisible' in mainstream advertising. A new study shows that gay men do not think that LGBT+ people are adequately represented in adverts. The research, conducted by UM London and Grindr, comes in the same week as the Diversity in Marketing & Advertising Summit in London. In a study of over 2,000 self-identifying gay and bisexual millennial men in the UK, two-thirds said that LGBT+ people were not shown enough in advertising campaigns. 52% of...

This sounds terrible. Job applicants who “sound” gay are less likely to get hired, according to a new study in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Researchers found that male applicants whose voices were perceived as feminine (admittedly a subjective value), and women whose voices were viewed as masculine, were at a disadvantage when it came to be hired or promoted. They also found this bias was only held by heterosexual men. “The participants had minimal information about the candidates,” Dr. Fabio Fasoli of...

In a new study titled “From the Bedroom to the Office,” researchers claim having sex either before work helps improve a person’s job performance for 24 hours. At the same time, people who bring work home with them experience negative affects on their sex lives. So put away the cellphone, dear, and come to bed. Over 150 couples (straight, gay and bisexual) participated in the study, which was conducted by the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. Each morning...

A new study suggests that female employers may prefer to hire gay candidates over straight ones. The research, from the University of Sussex’s School of Business, Management and Economics, asked 400 employers to review a randomly chosen fictional CV from a gay man, a lesbian, a straight man, or a straight woman. All four CVs were exactly the same, except for the fact that half listed membership with Los Angeles Gay Business Professionals. After viewing the CVs, participants were asked to decide...

“Policies on sexual minority rights can have a real effect on the mental health of adolescents.” A new study suggests that suicide attempts by lesbian, gay and bisexual teens declined as same-sex marriage became more prevalent in the United States. Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Harvard analyzed data on more than 700,000 public high school students on risky behaviors, including suicidal ideations. Roughly 230,000 identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual—a group four times more likely to attempt suicide. (The study didn’t...

A link has been found between the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the US and a drop in youth suicide attempts. Researchers at the John Hopkins University say suicide attempts by high school students fell by an average of 7% after marriage equality was introduced, with a 14% drop among gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers. Julia Raifman, co-author of the research, said: “These are high school students, so they aren’t getting married any time soon, for the most part. Still, permitting...

Quite a lot, it turns out. It’s hard not to feel like America is getting gayer: It isn’t just the plethora of LGBT characters on TV, or the apparent boom in straight girls living for RuPaul’s Drag Race. There’s a persistent feeling that the citizenry as a whole are more accepting of the homos among them. Even here in the heart of the South—where I’ve been living for the past six months—folks seem mostly curious when I tell them I...

Following eight years of research, a major new study has claimed that sexuality has no impact on the state of a person’s mental health. The Australian National University found that people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual were not at an increased risk of suffering with depression, anxiety or other mental health problems. However, they do concede that poor mental health and higher suicide rates of LGBT+ people could be down to the stigma they face after coming out. “Childhood sexual...