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I think this question is partly misdirected because nature and nurture have equal parts in deciding the sexual orientation of a person. Additionally, the recent learnings will help us understand that sexuality is a spectrum. Speaking from an evolutionary stand point, everyone is born straight because our goal is to pass on our genes and to do so you must find someone of the oposite sex and produce offspring. Same sex couples cannot produce offspring of their own together. However, I do believe through our development there is no longer such a need to pass on our genes so through our environment at a young age we decide what we find most attractive. I feel like we chose to be straight or gay. According to the American Psychiatric Association, until 1974 homosexuality was a mental illness. In 1973 the APA’s nomenclature task force recommended that homosexuality be declared normal. So all the people who had this terrible “illness” were “cured” overnight – by a vote! ridiculous right? I think the whole thing is wrong ,but, yes when I was younger and still to this day I long to be female but I'm not,.I am happy in my life.but, we must remember we can't really change and life is to short to be sad I say we make the best out of who and what we are. I Am stronger than the temtations of the devil for now and hope to remain that way because the more I don't ponder on the "what if "the happier I am. "anyone can be attractive with enough ponder. Humans always ponder the "strange" Brain scans show that the brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex. This is evidence sexual orientation was set in the womb, and that it is genetic. If you are gay, you are born gay. [1] The term homosexuality should be limited to the human species, for in animals the investigator can ascertain only motor behavior. As soon as he interprets the animal's motivation he is applying human psychodynamics -- a risky, if not foolhardy scientific approach. I am not so sure that a finding from research done on such a simple organism as a small fly can be generalized to the whole animal kingdom, even less so to humans. I am inclined to think that our sexuality is determined by more than just a single gene. All animals exhibit innate behaviors that are specified during their development. ... Male fly gene splicing is essential for male courtship behavior and sexual orientation. More importantly, it is also sufficient to generate male behavior in otherwise normal females. These females direct their courtship toward other females (or males engineered to produce female pheromones). The splicing of a single neuronal gene thus specifies essentially all aspects of a complex innate behavior.[2] We can focus on answering this specific question, or we can first analyze a more general relation between genetics and environment. Conclusions that we reach from this general discussion will help us find an answer to this specific issue. Furthermore, without understanding the general relation of nature and nurture I don't think it is possible to fully understand this specific case. Is homosexuality genetic?
Nature vs. nurture debate.