ASU Professor Frederick Whitam studies questions related to sexual orientation. His research suggests that gay and lesbian people are a permanent part of sexual orientation arragements in all societies. Picture a bustling street corner.
People hurry by on their way to work or home.
Others congregate in little knots of two or three, talking and laughing. They are just passing time. Nothing special, just a fairly typical scenario for any major city in the world. Now consider that the people congregating on the corners are just a bit different. The scene is nothing out of the ordinary on corners in London's Soho District or New York City's Greenwich Village.