# The Truth About What Causes Homosexuality **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657 "2013-04-02T19:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/1 "2013-04-02T19:44:49Z")
You probably suspected this already - but the causative factor is…[vaccination](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/vaccines-produce-homosexuality-gay-gian-paolo-vanoli_n_2992953.html). I’d be tempted to dismiss the article as an April Fool’s joke, but the source is Italy (where cellphones have already been officially deemed to cause cancer and satanic murder conspiracies abound), so it could well be for real. Wait! Don’t get that flu shot! Nooooooo… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/2 "2013-04-02T19:51:04Z")
Right. Because we all know that before vaccinations, there were no gay people.:rolleyes: > [@](#): > > The vaccine is introduced into the child, the child then grows and tries to find its own personality, and if this is inhibited by mercury or other substances present in the vaccine which enter the brain, the child becomes gay. The problem will especially be present in the next generations, because when gays have children, the children will carry along with them the DNA of their parent’s illness. Because homosexuality is a disease, even though the WHO has decided that it is not. Who cares! The reality is that it is so. Each vaccination produces homosexuality, because it prevents the formation of one’s personality. It is a microform of autism, if you will. You will see how many gays there will be in the next generation, it will be a disaster. I cannot begin to tell you what is wrong with that statement. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/3 "2013-04-02T19:51:42Z")
So are Jenny McCarthy’s kids gay now? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/4 "2013-04-02T19:53:48Z")
Ah the Italians. Lovely country, delightful people, fabulous cuisine. Unfortunately they seem to be governed by lunatics and have [mad scientists](http://science.time.com/2012/10/24/scientific-illiteracy-why-the-italian-earthquake-verdict-is-even-worse-than-it-seems/) everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/5 "2013-04-02T20:12:23Z")
Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/6 "2013-04-02T20:16:47Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Ah the Italians. Lovely country, delightful people, fabulous cuisine. Unfortunately they seem to be governed by lunatics and have [mad scientists](http://science.time.com/2012/10/24/scientific-illiteracy-why-the-italian-earthquake-verdict-is-even-worse-than-it-seems/) everywhere. I’ve always enjoyed P. J. O’Rourke’s take - “Italy is not technically part of the third world, but no one has told the Italians.” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/7 "2013-04-02T20:20:51Z")
Don’t let it worry you, he says that [drinking urine is the perfect cure](http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/italian-scientist-claims-vaccines-make-you-gay220313). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/8 "2013-04-02T20:28:42Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Don’t let it worry you, he says that [drinking urine is the perfect cure](http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/italian-scientist-claims-vaccines-make-you-gay220313). Whose? That of a same sex person or an opposite sex person? What if that person has had vaccinations? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/9 "2013-04-02T20:29:54Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? You didn’t get the glitter treatment? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/10 "2013-04-02T20:38:31Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? Yeah, where the hell is my fashion sense? Dammit… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/11 "2013-04-02T20:45:43Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > You didn’t get the glitter treatment? The damn quack didn’t mention that it was an option. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/12 "2013-04-02T20:47:02Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > **The Truth About What Causes Homosexuality** > > You probably suspected this already Birth? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/13 "2013-04-02T21:13:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wait a minute. I got all of the recommended vaccinations when I was a kid, and I’m still not fabulous. What the hell happened? I know! All the gay guys I see are incredibly fit and gorgeous (at least on the web sites…what?) and I didn’t get any of that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/14 "2013-04-02T21:19:54Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Right. Because we all know that before vaccinations, there were no gay people.:rolleyes:. Probably those [catamite’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamite) and their advanced program of vaccination that cause the fall of Rome as well. Damn their eyes!!! (we need a Marty Fledman smiley) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/15 "2013-04-02T21:27:33Z")
You get more Mercury from eating fish than you would from the vaccine. Oh. My. God. That explains a lot! Fish for Lent and the whole Catholic Church thing! McDonalds Fish Filets. Red Lobster. Jesus and the whole “I will make you Fishers of Men” thing! The mind reels! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/16 "2013-04-02T21:30:02Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The mind reels! Fishing reels? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/17 "2013-04-02T21:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > The problem will especially be present in the next generations, because when gays have children, the children will carry along with them the DNA of their parent’s illness. How oxymoronic is _that?_ Everybody knows gays can’t have children, silly! ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/18 "2013-04-02T23:45:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > How oxymoronic is _that?_ Everybody knows gays can’t have children, silly! I’ll be sure to tell mom and her partner. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/19 "2013-04-02T23:52:43Z")
Silly Italian scientist! An Austrian scientist already explained homosexuality: an overbearing mother treats her son like her surrogate lover, so that he never outgrows his Oedipus Complex when the incest taboo would normally overwhelm it. He reacts to the conflicted revulsion by becoming a woman himself, going so far as to offering his anus as a grotesque orfice for fertilization, “birthing” bowel movements representing a continuation of the “gifts” presented to his mother long past when he should have outgrown his anal phase. Sounds just a stupid as the anti-vax theory, but our grandparents believed it (that is, the enlightened ones who didn’t simply see it as Satanic) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657/20 "2013-04-03T00:41:27Z")
The problem with stories like the one in HuffPo is the very fine line between [satire](http://dailycurrant.com/2012/12/06/santorum-cliams-created-homosexuality-vaccines/) and reality. I can vouch for the vaccines-cause-homosexuality theory from personal experience. Our female Labrador pup got her vaccines, and next thing you know she’s dragging her dog bed across the floor, energetically humping it. If that isn’t proof I don’t know what is. > [@tdn](#): > > (Drinking) Whose (urine)? That of a same sex person or an opposite sex person? What if that person has had vaccinations? C’mon, _real_ urine drinkers only drink their own urine. Otherwise it would be, like, disgusting. And word is, [your own urine is healthiest](http://www.fruitnut.net/HTML/201_Article_Urine.htm). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657.md?page=2)