Why does Homosexuality Evolve?

Homosexual sex doesn’t lead to reproduction. So given that evolution by natural selection favours genes that increase an organism's reproductive success, why does evolution not drive homosexuality to extinction?

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Richard Dawkins on homosexuality and evolution.
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Fruit Flies: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or...
8% of sheep are gay: https://academic.oup.com/endo/article...
LargeSwedish twin study: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1...
http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/d...
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http://www.towleroad.com/2014/11/scie...



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"Walking Along" and "No Good Layabout" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jazz in Paris by Media Right Productions (YouTube Music Library)

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