The court said the Scouts' decision to kick James Dale out of the Boy Scouts because he is gay should be overturned. An attorney for Dale said this is the first time any appeals court has ruled against the Boy Scouts in challenges to their exclusion of homosexuals. A spokesman for the Boy Scouts' national headquarters said the decision will be appealed to the state Supreme Court. Dale was expelled by the Monmouth Council of the Boy Scouts in 1990 after the group learned from a newspaper article that he was gay. Maybe it's all in the ear.
Researchers say they've found evidence of a physical difference between lesbians and straight women.
They say the inner ears of gay women work more like those of men. The discovery adds new support to the theory that sexual orientation may be predisposed before birth. Previous research has found that two parts of the male brain are different in gay and heterosexual men. Other studies have found that some genes differ between gay and straight men. It has yet to be proven, however, that there is a specific site in the brain that directs women to be lesbians, he said.