Gay on the low
The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Dyke, Gay, Bisexual Population Cloak Orientation, YSPH Study Finds
The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as lesbian, queer or bisexual — retain their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of Widespread Health that could contain major implications for global public health.
Concealing one’s sexual orientation can lead to significant mental and physical health issues, increased healthcare costs and a dampening of the public public presence necessary for advancing equivalent rights, said John Pachankis, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He co-authored the study with Richard Bränström, an associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and analyze affiliate at Yale.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study is believed to be the first attempt to quantify the size of the “global closet” in command to gauge its widespread health impact.
“Given rapidly increasing acceptanc
March 02,
The Epidemic of
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes
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I used to get so delighted when the meth was all gone.
This is my friend Jeremy.
When you include it, he says, you have to keep using it. When it&#x;s gone, it&#x;s like, &#x;Oh nice, I can go help to my life now.&#x; I would stay up all weekend and move to these sex parties and then feel appreciate shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.
Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won&#x;t tell me the precise circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.
Jeremy is not the companion I was expecting to have this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the kind of guy who wears a operate shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. Today, when I ask him how the hospital&#x;s been so far,
What&#;s Behind the Rapid Rise in LGBTQ Identity?
Newsletter March 6,
Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
Since , Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first limited years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, attracted to both genders, transgender, or homosexual was relatively short and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year increase in LGBTQ identity. In , nearly one in ten ( percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.
The steady increase in LGBTQ self among the universal is worth noting, but it’s not the most key part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic raise among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of adolescent women who spot as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as successfully. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to spot as LGBTQ than young men. For inst
Feelings of Inferiority in LGBTQ+ People
Feelings of Inferiority in LGBTQ+ People
By Robert Fourie, Cork LGBTQ+ community
Many of us in the LGBTQ+ community experience from a hidden internal express that causes a great deal of unhappiness. Specifically, this mental state can erode self-care, self-esteem, self worth and a general sense of wellbeing. Therefore it needs to be exposed and challenged. The name of this internal mental state is “Inferiority”. Although there is nothing inferior about being an LGBTQ+ person, many people in the Gay community experience a nagging instinct of inferiority.
The roots of inferiority lie in childhood. According to Alfred Adler one of the founders of psychotherapy, when we are children, we naturally exposure a sense of “being smaller-than”. Ideally, this sense of smallness provides a beginner’s mind which allows us to learn and develop and which motivates us to grow up and blossom into adult autonomy. Therefore, it is a driver of growth and growth. However, if a child is overwhelmed by this smallness and experiences it as dangerou