ABSTRACT
In terms of the gay child’s development after birth, studies indicate that it may follow a fairly typical pattern, with the homosexual child displaying noticeable differences from the straight child sometimes as early as the first year of life, according to UCLA researcher Richard Green. The conflicted gay person may find his homosexual urges entirely absent, for instance, or present only in his dreams or fantasies, signifying that his discomfort with the whole matter has become so great that his sexual desires have been driven completely out of awareness. A comparable process is at work when an insecure gay youth or adult becomes antagonistic toward gay people in general, railing against the presence of homosexuality in the world. Several studies have found that nearly half of all gay youths and adults decide that they may be homosexual as a result of excursions into the gay world.
