Some People Are Gay. Why?

Script Visuals
Opening montage:
-soundbites from interviews
-excerpts from public debates and people discussing
homosexuality
Displays of real homophobia
Two percent, that’s how much of the time lapse footage
lgbt flag waving
population identify as LGBT, Just over a
million in the Uk. So homosexuality is
commonplace, very common. Roughly
one in fifty people identify as LGBT. But this
hasn’t stopped the prejudice and
ignorance surround it.
My own experience- In my own
experience, I have always had feelings for
men. My first crushes were all boys in my
classes. I knew from a young age so I don’t
know any different; being gay for me
seems to be a biological process as I don’t
remember ever having a real attraction to
females and still don’t to this day. I came
out at 14 to my family on October 14, and
then a couple months later I told my
friends at school and it obviously went
round as no one else in my school had
actually come out. I was truly the only gay
in the village. I have had a very easy
experience being gay, I’ve only
experienced homophobia once in a blue
moon; and it has never got to dangerous
point, so I’m very lucky in that sense. I have
friends who were worried about coming
out as they thought they wouldn’t have a
place to stay anymore. I have other friends
who will never ever come out, ever. They
know they’ll never be accepted by their
loved ones for who they are and it’s just
depressing that same sex love is seen as
lesser and gross and needs to be justified
by science, it doesn’t need justification
because same-sex relationships aren’t
innately immoral.
While a majority of Uk citizens agree with Screen grab of you.gov
poll
homosexuality. That’s true for a majority of
the population but 1 in 3 Britons believe it is
a choice still.
It seems the move to more progressive Back to me
views has been halted by current events,
Gallop reported a 147% rise in reported
attacks after the Brexit referendum.
So it safe to say there a few glass ceilings
LGBT people must break to be completely
accepted. But why has this stigma
burdened LGBT people for years, where
did homosexuality even come from? What
causes it?
Some People Are Gay. Why?
Some people believe homosexuality Time lapse of human
evolution video
evolved alongside humans over millions of
years, as homosexuality is practised in Chimpanzees
every major animal group, from apes to Ducks
ducks. Before the Abrahamic religions
Cross, crescent and star
started gaining traction in the world life for and the star of david.
the homosexual was better than it is today.
All of these religions had influence of the
laws that governed the land, so not before
long anti-homosexual legislation was
enacted all over the developing world.
Throughout the Middle Ages homosexuality
was punished severely by family members Act of buggary
or priests. In 1533 Britain, King Henry VIII
brought in the acts of buggary, the first
legislation that advocated the death
penalty for homosexuals. This piece of
legislation stood for over 400 years and in
this time thousands of gay men were
outed and shamed before being
murdered in public. In the Victorian era,
the acts of buggary was overturned for Oscar wilde and photos
of gay Victorians
new legislation, death penalty was
abolished in favour for 10 years manual
labour and no witnesses needed for
persecution. It wasn’t until 1967 The gay liberation front
homosexuality was decriminalised in
England, wales; but still homosexuals still
had no legal discrimination protections
and were still very openly discriminated
against; Remember, decriminalisation is
not the same as legalisation. Actually after
this legislation was passed, British
homosexuals were convicted even more;
the conviction rate going up 300%. Even in
the eighties, just as progressive ideas were Jenny lives with Eric and
becoming popular, Prime Minister Thatcher martin cover
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used the wave of uproar about a pro-LGBT thatcher
children’s book in a public library to enact
section 28 of the local authority’s act;
which banned any government service like
hospitals and schools promoting
homosexuality. This act worsened life for
young LGBT people. Bullying and abuse
was rife but children couldn’t report it to an
official or get any professional help, and
the government actually apologised the
act was such a gross failure. At the turn of
Video of millennium
the millennium LGBT people got entering in the UK
discrimination protections, Transgender Trans symbol
people could transition legally and civil Marriage equality symbol
partnerships were practised. Today, same- Northern Irish lgbt flag
icon
sex marriage is legal in the UK (bar northern Red no crosses
Ireland) and LGBT people face no legal
barriers at all (bar Northern Ireland). -2010
Equality act

But is it really? Is homosexuality actually a back to me

choice or is it predisposed? I’ve asked
these men if homosexuality was a choice
for them.
Segments from the interview where I ask
“Was homosexuality a choice for you?”
So the gays are saying that they never
chose it, but one in three Britons think they
do? How has this gap of knowledge and
understanding happened? Let’s try and
educate and debate this topic.
Human Biologists currently have three
theories on how homosexuality develops in
humans.
The first is the fraternal birth order effect; if Drawing of the brother in
a line.
a child has older male siblings, they are
more likely to be gay. So this has led
theorists to assume as the mother bores
more male children the body gets better
at recognising the male foetus as a foreign
body, and gets better at attacking the
child. This could led to the feminization of
the brain and prevent heterosexuality
developing.
It is also been discovered the brains of gay
men and straight woman tend to have
similar brain structures. More so the brains of
straight men and lesbians are similar in
structure also.
However the fraternal birth order effect Back to me
doesn’t explain a cause for lesbians or first
born homosexuals. And a lot of the
research has been called into question.
The epigenetic guncle theory. It suggests Images of dna
that homosexuality evolved to ensure the
survival of the whole family.
Homosexual individuals don’t often Back to me
procreate so they need less resources and
have more time to invest in raising the
younger offspring of their siblings. An extra
parent can be extremely beneficial to the
survival of the whole family especially
during times of crisis or low monogamy.
In fact it’s these environmental triggers that
scientists believe cause the pregnant
mother to stress and this actually alters the
foetuses DNA which results in the child
being homosexual to better suit an
environment of low monogamy and crisis.
The changes of DNA are called epi-
genetics, and this is the most recent theory
surrounding the development of
homosexuality.
This theory has also been called into
question as the sample size was small and
couldn’t be used as definitive evidence.

The absent father theory was an idea Absent father image

that was populated in the early 20th

century to explain homosexuality.
Homosexuality was classed a Back to me

degenerative disease that could be

cured. The absence of the father
causes the rejection of masculinity
and leads to homosexual desires.
This theory was the basis of Images of electro
convulsion therapy
conversion therapy, to alter the
preferences of the person through
negative association practises. These
practices were highly immoral and
led to permanent psychological
damage.
-Interviews with men discussing the
theories-
It’s difficult to say which one of these Back to me

theories is more correct. They’ll all

been disproven and critiqued by
different people.
It might be naïve to think that
something as complicated as human
sexuality something that has
developed for billions of years will
ever be explained by us.
But what we do know is that they are
real and they are commonplace.
Does it really matter if they chose it?
Homosexuality does not harm
anyone or take anything away from
life. Homophobia does.
I can respect not agreeing with
homosexuality but putting your
prejudice into action is a completely
different.
An 80% rise in LGBT attacks in 2017 Footage of time lapse

shows there is a budding counter

culture from progressiveness. Sections of the interviews

I believe people are completely

entitled to your opinion, I believe Lgbt protests and
activists
people even have the right to voice
it in appropriate register. I don’t
believe however people should
enforce your own belief onto others
or present your own myopia as
superior.
The right to free speech that allows
me to say gay is okay also protects
those who say it’s not, and it should.
To be honest it doesn’t actually
matter how people become
homosexual, they are and that’s it.
Homosexuality is itself is not positive or
negative, it just exists.
The need to explain the cause of
homosexuality almost plays into the
need to justify its place in society.
Science doesn’t actually have to
prove anything as we already know
people are gay or more sexually fluid.