Gay and Bisexual Men's Health Issu | Johns Hopks Medice

Contents:

• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN
• CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• WHICH GAY TRIBE DO YOU BELONG TO?
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they like the world at large may stereotype gays as mcg wrist flippers wh great taste bent on givg everyone they meet a make over.

That said, when the gays see a fellow homosexual the public sphere, we try to plug them to the nvenient taxonomy the muny has ma for self.

They may not be very faiar to the world at large, but they are certaly faiar to the brothers butt say that each gay person belongs to one of the typ is a b ceptive. Dcriptn: This young breed of gays is never over 30 and tends to be on the queeny si and hews closely to the nventnal stereotyp of gay man. Wild, ornery, and still gettg over their g out issu, the twk is the gay gone wild, and is ba to olr men who are to tryg to suck off their youthful energy.

GAY MEN AND BODY PERFECTN

Subtegori: The Twunk, the Gay-sian, the A&F boy. Celebry Example: Kev SmhGay Jocks. Dcriptn: This guy pris himself on the fact that no one thks he is gay until he tells them.

CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET

He wears T-shirts and ball ps wh his favore team logo, and lik guys who are "non-scene, " unls the scene is a gay sports team.

Subtegori: Gay football players, gay soccer plays, gay gby players, etc. Celebry Example: This is such a specific type don't really exists the world at large, but the Platonic ial of a circu boy is DJ Brett HenrichsenGay-Listers. Dcriptn: The are the uppy homos who live the good life, and are generally too good for you.

They ually work advertisg, PR, marketg, or the entertament dtry and make a ton of sh which they e to have perfect apartments, fantastic wardrob, and summer hom near all the other gay-listers. Subtegori: Power gays, the velvet mafia.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

Dcriptn: The are the kids who are so gay they uld never f durg high school and sought refuge the mic partment. He drs eher the most current prissy fashns or like a homo versn of Terry Richardson, big glass, flannels, and jeans that looks so thrown together that took him hours to put together. You're more likely to fd them at a gallery openg or mol party, but every so often they'll be at a gay bar to b elbows, and other parts, wh the other homos.

Dcriptn: This is a very small but very powerful ntgent of the gay populatn. The drag queens are not only the urt jters of the gay muny, drsg up like clowns for our entertament, but they are also a bridge to the straight world. As much as gay men appreciate the queens for their looks, w, and sha, straight people love a drag show even more than the queers do.

But is also leavg many gay men feelg anx about their bodi.

WHICH GAY TRIBE DO YOU BELONG TO?

The gay media reprents bety and sirabily the form of youth and gym-toned bodi, makg the gay scene a harsh place for people who do not nform to such ials. There is a high prevalence of psychologil distrs related to body image amongst gay men. Many gay men go to the gym every day.

We ually associate eatg disorrs wh women but is mon wh gay men too (and creasgly wh heterosexual men).

Some gay men suffer om what we ll "mcle distrs. This distrs go unnoticed bee is socially sirable to have the perfect body the gay scene.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Many gay men velop harsh and cril thoughts about how they look, and n seem like an impossible battle to w.

I see gay men whose strict liftyle has ma them miserable and they n’t fd a way towards ntentment for themselv.