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May. 27,. 1997: Genetically. gay? Over the past decade, numerous scientists have announced the bodily location for a biological foundation for homosexuality. In the early 1990s, Simon LeVay's claim about the hypothalamus was followed shortly by Dean Hamer's suggestion of a "gay gene." In 1997, Advocate writer Ted Gideonse explored potential ramifications of a definitive gay genetic marker and the possibility of fetal testing for ...