Shock Study: Gay Men, Straight Women Share Brain Detail

Hmm. They're both emotional, moody, suffer from anxiety and love appletinis.

OK, I made that last part up, but observational studies have concluded this.

Whodathunkit?

Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study highlighting the potential biological underpinning of sexuality.

Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That, of course, would explain much about the affinity for beer and softball.

"The observations cannot be easily attributed to perception or behavior," the researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute wrote. "Whether they may relate to processes laid down during the fetal or postnatal development is an open question."