As The World Turns' gay storyline paid off in spades at last night's GLAAD Media Awards. Alright, maybe not "in spades," but the did get the outstanding daily drama award. Not that it's a surprise, of course: the soap garnered scads of gay press for casting Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann as teenage lovers.

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For over a century, biologists, psychologists, geneticists and general scientists have attempted to answer the question: "What makes someone gay?" Despite recent rights gains, gays still remain the scientific conundrum of our time. If, as we're taught to believe, all living creatures must mate, why do some individual queers choose to love up on their own gender?

Though one would expect the trend to abate, New York's David France writes that new studies are opening up new avenues of "gay" research, including "seeming gay".

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