CONSENSUS: ‘Gayness’ more socio-cultural than biological, LGBT scholars say. “He has interviewed leading scholars of homosexual history and anthropololgy, almost all LGBT themselves, and reports that they have decisively concluded that ‘gayness’ is a product of Western society originating about 150 years ago. He says the scholars he met were dismayed or appalled by the idea that being homosexual was ‘hard-wired’ or innate.”