Simon LeVay rose to national prominence in 1991, when he reported that a certain group of brain cells, the third interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus, was two to three times smaller in homosexual men than in heterosexual men and that it resembled in size that of heterosexual women more than heterosexual men. Television, magazines, and newspapers seized on this finding, distorting its implications, simplifying the issues it raised and ignoring serious objections raised to it. Since then, LeVay has retired from neurological research and now devotes his efforts to gay education, community development, and writing books promulgating what has become the mainstream view of homosexuality among relatively intelligent and informed people. In his third book, he