FBI investigated gay-positive Wisconsin governor

Associated Press
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(Madison, Wisconsin) The red-vested and gregarious former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus was so well liked, even the FBI couldn’t dig up any dirt.

Despite conducting more than 50 interviews with political opponents, former college classmates and even folks who happen to live next door to the governor’s mansion, federal agents conducting a background check in 1982 couldn’t find anything bad to say about him.

Dreyfus, a moderate Republican and one of Wisconsin’s most beloved politicians, died Jan. 2 at age 81. He served as governor from 1979 to 1983. The FBI records were released to The Associated Press under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Despite his popularity, Dreyfus decided not to seek re-election as governor after serving one term. One of his most lasting achievements was signing a gay rights measure that made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment and public accommodations.

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Gay Men, Straight Women Have Similar Brains

by James Owen
for National Geogrpahic News

Researchers found resemblances in the brain's physical structure and size as well as the strength of neural connections among gay people and straight people of the opposite sex.

In some ways the brains of straight men and lesbians are on similar wavelengths, the research suggests. Likewise, gay men and straight women appear to have similar brains, in some respects. The findings are new evidence that homosexuals may be born with a predisposition to be gay.

"[Our] data are more difficult to explain by a specific learned behavior related to … sexual orientation," study leader Ivanka Savic, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, said in an email.

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