Is it just me or is there a connection between homosexuality and left-handedness?

Hmm...

Myself and a lot of other LGB I've seen are lefties. Is it just me or is there a pattern?

[Spectre]

It's just you.

Yeah, probably. But damn, it is creepy!

[VampConspiracy]

Totally right-handed here. Again, I think it's just you.

[Mitchell]

This is really interesting. I myself am left-handed, too.

[Harve]

I'm left handed for most things, and i've noticed a correlation too. You can compare the random occurrences of people being born gay and people being born left handed too, they're very similar 'traits' i guess.

[otc877]

I know I've read about this before, and being a lefty myself I can say that I support the statistic.

Here's an article I found after a quick google search: http://www.psychologytoday.com/artic...sexuality-hand

So, I agree with OP, there may be something there.

[Chip]

There are several studies, and there does appear to be a fairly strong correlation. Left-handers are about 10% of the population. Gay people are also about 10% of the population. If left-handers were a normal distribution of the gay population, then about 10% of the gay population would be left-handed, and about 1% of the total population would be gay AND left-handed.

But both anecdotally and from studies, that does not seem to be the case. Among my 10 closest gay friends, 4 are left-handed. And among a completely different group I was with several years ago, we happened to discover that among 4 of us in the car, (all of whom were gay men), *all* of us were lefthanded. The statistical likelihood of that happening entirely by chance is pretty low.

I'd love to see some wider evaluation of this, and I'd also be curious to know if it extends to lesbians or is only with gay men.

[Connor22]

I'm left handed so I think so, and my gay friend is left handed

[Spit Fire]

im left handed.
but really one thing guys
when your a lefy it means you think more with your right side of your brain. your more hands on then book smart. might have nothing to do with being gay.

[Holly27]

I'm both gay and left-handed.

According to this study, gay people are much more likely to be left-handed than straight people are: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12710825

[ANightDude]

That's odd. I'm right handed, however.

Right handed here. =/

[theJosephDean]

Right-handed... Not surprisingly, mostly only the lefties are going to find this interesting and worth looking into

[Mister Gaga]

Me, the few gays I know and my bisexual "boyfriend" are all right-handed

[Steve712]

I know quite a few left-handed heterosexuals. I'm left-handed because my dad is. *shrugs*

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Originally Posted by Spit Fire

im left handed.
but really one thing guys
when your a lefy it means you think more with your right side of your brain. your more hands on then book smart. might have nothing to do with being gay.

I'm definitely more book smart than kinesthetic.

[excuseyou77]

Gay and left handed.

A friend of mine who is gay too is also left-handed. Hmm.

[theJosephDean]

Originally Posted by Spit Fire

im left handed.
but really one thing guys
when your a lefy it means you think more with your right side of your brain. your more hands on then book smart. might have nothing to do with being gay.

All of the left-handed people I know (of all sexualities) are all super book-smart and would rather not do hands-on projects. =/

i'm right handed..but i'm goofy footed--which basically means i have better balance on my left foot. but i'm odd.. pretty much everything i do is at complete odds with every other thing i do.

[Steve712]

I think that it's normal to be better than the opposite foot from your good hand. My right foot used to have better balance, although now they're fairly equal.