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Simon LeVay

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in Oxford, The United Kingdom

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Science, Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction

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Dr. Simon LeVay is a writer and lecturer with a background in neuroscience. He is best known for his research on the brain and sexuality, but has also spent many years studying the visual system. He has written or co-authored several books on sexuality, and coauthored books on such diverse topics as earthquakes and volcanoes, extraterrestrial life, and Parkinson's disease. He has even written a novel. Dr. Simon LeVay lives in West Hollywood, California. ...more

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	When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales From the Dark Side of Discovery 3.64 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation 3.78 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discovering Human Sexuality by Simon LeVay (Goodreads Author), Janice Baldwin, John Baldwin 3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sexual Brain (Bradford Books) 3.56 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality 3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Sexuality by Simon LeVay (Goodreads Author), Sharon M. Valente 3.86 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Donation of Constantine: A Novel 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albrick's Gold 2.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of DeeBug: A Queer Young Adult Novel 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Loved One

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In Memoriam

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Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

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“There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of action
and expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society.”
― Simon LeVay

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“What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.”
― Simon LeVay, Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation

tags: acceptance, gay

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“When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfully) to mate with the male in front of it.”
― Simon LeVay, Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation

tags: biology, gay, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, sex, sexuality

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