Can I as a gay person become straight? I don't want to, I'm exactly as I should be. I think the same goes for everybody else. It's sad this is even a question (not an attack on the op, just frustrated this is even an issue).

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I'm actually not sure about that…   

Me too.  I love myself

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] if there is i am sure everyone would want to do it..
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I'm actually not sure about that…   

Me too.  I love myself

The first one is the discovery that there are measurable differences in different regions of the brain between heterosexual men and heterosexual women. For example, in women, the corpus callosum is much more developed when compared to men. When they added homosexual men and women to this research, they found that homosexual men's brains structurally resembled heterosexual women's brains more closely and vice versa for homosexual women and heterosexual men.

The second one is that brain development during critical periods, such as within your mother's womb, as well as reproductive organ development, is triggered through hormonal changes of the mother. One reason why we have babies being born with seemingly ambiguous genitalia is due to hormonal imbalances. My sister's third son, for example, was born with ambiguous genitalia. Only through DNA testing did they find out he was a boy, so they didn't get all cut happy with the scalpel. But the doctors did notice some hormonal imbalances during the pregnancy that they tried to compensate for by giving her estrogen supplements.

These two pieces of research have created some interesting theories that your sexuality is determined in your mother's womb based on the available quantities and ratios between certain hormones as they are transferred to you from your mother. Some theorists believe that some women develop a sort of immunity (for lack of a better word) to testosterone and floods her system with even more estrogen to compensate while others ability to produce estrogen becomes suppressed. If a baby's bloodstream has higher quantities of estrogen flooding into his brain, it's likely to trigger some developmental and structural growth in some regions while suppressing it in others and causing these measurable differences between men's and women's brains.

If this theory proves to be true, and your sexual preferences are linked to structural differences in your brain, it would indicate that your sexuality is not a choice and not something you can change.

If only people could just embrace what they are….oh well

If someone feels unhappy he or she will try to change things, for better or worse. If everyone would accept what they are then there would never be progress. Those who are skinny would always stay skinny. Those who are bad in math would simply accept it and fail the test. Those who are straight would embrace their sexuality and never try to experiment. Aren't transexuals the perfect example for this?

But the question remains. I firmly believe that gay people cannot become straight. I also think that majority wouldn't want to change their orientation. Gay pride anyone? Praising mutual attraction of two men and rubbing it to everyone's face? However, if there was a switch button to become straight I'd smash it without hesitation. There is more to life than one's sexual orientation, but there's also the easy and the hard way.

People are very different and there is hardly a formula which will work for every single person. But, generally, I don't believe it is possible for  gay person to become straight, or vice versa. It is not a choice, it's who you are.

There are some theories of sexual orientation being genetic. Plus, there are "conversion" therapies out there but the most that does is traumatize the patient. It's a horrible thing. If only people could just embrace what they are….oh well

To my knowledge, there is not a clear explanation how some person is gay, there are just theories about it. Some say it is purely genetics, others claim environmental effects should be considered etc. For example, according to a study from the book, homosexual people were exposed to some hormones and chemicals in the womb during a critical period so that some particular regions of the brain are formed and function like the opposite sex but some other regions don't. However, there is also a genetical tendency whether this "malformation" can occur. Anyway, I cannot say too much since I am not a true expert in neurology and psychology, but I recommend Levay's book.

I don't think someone calling himself/herself gay becomes straight.

I'm actually not sure about that… 

You can suppress your gayness, but you can't change it.  This is proven by all the "ex gays" that are still gay.

for me, i believe it to be a choice.

there are some friends who were gay and now straight. dont know what happened but it just shows, it is possible.

i have a friend who's been in relationship with men all his life, then a girl came along… then he became addicted to girls...