Lol, this shows how great observer you are. You befriended two biggest gay bashers on eupedia Ike and FireHaired.
And for your information, I would comment same way regardless of haplogroup, because your observation doesn't make sense. You point for correlation without causation. Do you understand this concept?
Obviously, if the distinction were understood, the thread would not have been posted. You need some advanced vocabulary, reason, and logic to understand it. Forget about actually looking up studies.
I don't know to what extent homosexuality is determined by genetic factors, uterine environment, early childhood environment, and/or life experiences. I think that the research as well as the testimony of actual gay people indicates that the inclination is present from an extremely young age and has a genetic component.
There is some early work indicating a link to the X chromosome, as another poster mentioned. I'm not going to bother posting the link because it probably won't be read, and if read, it probably won't be understood. The fact that it is on the X makes some sense to me since if the 'determining' genetic factors were on the "Y" one would think it would be a trait that would die out. It also might explain why there are apparently(?) fewer Lesbians than homosexual men. In women, since there are two X chromosomes, it would be rarer to get a situation where both genes code for homosexuality and the trait is expressed.
None of this is to say that homosexuality may not be more present in certain ethnic groups than in others.There are indeed some studies that indicate it is more prevalent in certain European countries than in others, although it's difficult to know how accurate such data might be given the social stigma is stronger in some countries than in others. Once you get out of Europe, it's impossible to quantify as some posters have pointed out, as the penalty can be death.
Also, there seems to be an unawareness here of the hypocrisy which can exist even in such countries. Yes, homosexuality is strictly forbidden in Muslim countries. That didn't stop the Ottomans from engaging in a very lively trade in young boys for sexual purposes. J2a is very predominant there. Do our posters really not know what goes on even in places like J1 Saudi Arabia? Last time I checked, this isn't a part of the world awash in R1b.
Or what about Afghanistan and the "Bacha Bazi," the underage "dancing boys"? Oh wait, there's a lot of R1a there! Is it all the "R" lineages? But wait again, from that map of gay civil rights in Europe it looks to me like the more hunter gatherer north is more homosexual. Is it the higher percentages of the yDNA "I"? Or is it all that mtDNA U5 and U4, or rather the X chromosomes these women carried?
I'm going to give some of these young men the benefit of the doubt and assume they are joking around. If I were to believe they are serious, it would be just too depressing.
Ed. And just why do some of you care so much what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms? Are they harming you in some way? I swear, maybe there's something to the idea that men who are so viciously anti-gay harbor unresolved homosexual feelings themselves, or at least are very insecure about their sexuality.