The Kinsey Scale Test and 3 other ways to find where you fall on the sexuality spectrum
The Kinsey Scale Test is by far the best-known sexuality quiz to measure different sexualities. But it’s not the only romantic orientation test.
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LGBTQ+ health networks helped make urban neighborhoods more resilient against COVID
A look at historic gay neighborhoods across cities shows strong mutual aid networks, action against misinformation, and localized testing labs, all built during the AIDS fight.
The FDA’s gay and bi blood-donor ban isn’t just stigmatizing—it’s also likely outdated
The agency eased its restrictions on sexual abstinence during the pandemic—but not enough to meet blood-donation demands.
LGBTQ+ alliance groups can have a positive effect on entire student populations
A new study of more than 29,000 LGBTQ+ youth nationwide shows that 91 percent of them had been bullied at least once.
The weirdest things we learned this week: the origin of moron, forgotten scurvy cures, and bisexual space stations
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast.
A massive study confirms no one ‘gay gene’ controls sexual preference
The study, which included nearly half a million people, found that while there are some genes that contribute to sexual behavior, they each only play a tiny role.
Britain makes Alan Turing, the father of AI, the face of its 50-pound note
Decades after his chemical castration by the British government and subsequent suicide, Alan Turing, the wartime codebreaker, pioneering computer scientist, and founder of artificial intelligence, will appear on the nation’s 50 pound note.
What To Make Of That Saliva Test For Homosexuality
A new saliva test purportedly shows whether a man is straight or gay, according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. And no, it won’t tell you why someone is gay. And it doesn’t work for women or bisexuals, either. While many scientists believe that there is […]
The Science Of Bisexuality
Bisexual folks have an image problem in America. Could science help? A new feature, published in the New York Times Magazine, follows the efforts of the American Institute of Bisexuality to fund scientific studies on bisexuals. The institute works to combat damaging beliefs about bisexual people, including that they are actually gay, not bi; that […]
Same-Sex Marriage Doesn’t Affect Opposite-Sex Marriage Rates, Study Finds
The data sets are in, and marriage equality isn’t the harbinger of death for “traditional” marriage between men and women, according to a study from the School of Community Health at Portland State University published recently in PLOS ONE. The study took the number of opposite-sex marriages from all 50 states and the District of […]