What causes homosexuality and bisexuality?
This question comes up quite frequently and is probably one of the most difficult to answer. Currently, no reasonable and valid theory explains the development of sexual orientation. The theories that have been put forth are inconsistent and contradictory. Sexuality, broadly speaking is most likely determined through a combination of biology and environment. But the important thing is that gay, lesbian, and bi people are here, we have been here for a long time, and we are not going away. You may want to turn the question back to people and ask, “What causes heterosexuality?” This usually gets a nervous laugh. Our culture the belief that heterosexuality is the “normal mode of development for everyone, and therefore anyone who is not heterosexual must be “abnormal.” Perhaps the most dangerous consequence of this view of human diversity is that it encourages us to try to make the abnormal into the normal. If being gay, lesbian or bisexual is abnormal, then surely we ought to try to find w
