10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABE AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A META-ANALYSIS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABE AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A META-ANALYSIS

Moreover, the ways which society both hypersexualiz LGBTQ people and stigmatiz our relatnships n lead to timate partner vlence that stems om ternalized homophobia and shame. 44 percent of lbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 35 percent of straight women26 percent of gay men and 37 percent of bisexual men experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 29 percent of straight men46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, pared to 17 percent of straight women and 13 percent of lbians22 percent of bisexual women have been raped by an timate partner, pared to 9 percent of straight women40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual vlence other than rape, pared to 21 percent of straight men.

"This experience prompted Rogers to set up his own Boston-based anisatn to provi help, tn and advocy for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny who are facg domtic when he first started there was a feelg the same-sex muny that speakg out about domtic abe was "airg our dirty lndry".

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

"It had a ripplg effect through multiple different stutns - crimal jtice, the urts, police and healthre, " he the 1990s, police would often fail to take domtic abe a gay male relatnship serly. Campaigners say awarens of the problem of vlence gay relatnships will be helped by last year's rethorisatn of the feral Vlence agast Women Act which now clus a provisn for means any fundg that through the act - even stat that do not regnise civil partnerships or gay marriage - now has to go to everyone, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. "So far 's liberal stat like Massachetts that have done most to support gay victims of domtic vlence, but the signs are that the ti may be slowly begng to change across the untry.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

However, people who are lbian, gay and bisexual have an equal or higher prevalence of experiencg timate partner vlence, sexual vlence and stalkg as pared to heterosexuals.

26% percent of gay men and 37% of bisexual men – pared to 29% of heterosexual men – experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner at some pot their lifetime. In orr to terme the prevalence of childhood sexual abe among gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals, we nducted a meta-analysis that piled the rults of 65 articl across 9 untri. A homosexual nnot tomatilly be nsired a child molter, said Judh Reisman, print of the Instute for Media Edutn suburban Louisville, wh 17-24 percent of boys beg abed by age 18, nearly as many as the 25 percent of girls, there is e for ncern, she heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual populatn about 44 to 1, as a group the cince of homosexuals moltg children is up to 40 tim greater than heterosexuals, she said.

“In fact, the largt database of child molters the untry shows that those who molt boys are over three tim more likely to be heterosexual their adult relatnships than homosexual, ” she Reisman pots to figur om a 1991 populatn study by the U.

8 girls by heterosexual a study published 1987 the Journal of Interpersonal Vlence, Able said homosexuals sexually molt young boys wh an cince five tim greater than the moltatn of girls. Figur released last summer by the Jtice Department reveal that adults are not the primary victims of sexual asslt, she showed that 67 percent of all reported sex abe victims are children and 64 percent of forcible sodomy victims are boys unr analysts wh Washgton-based, pro-fay anizatns agree that homosexuals pose a greater risk to Daily of the Fay Rearch Council qutned “60 Mut” claim that adults who molt boys n even be lled heterosexual. ”Among the reasons Dailey ced for beg ncerned about the potential for homosexual moltatn of boys:— Almost all sex crim agast children are mted by men and signifint numbers of victims are mal.

In The Gay Report — a book published back 1979 — thors Karla Jay and Allen Young found that 73 percent of those surveyed had had sexual relatns wh mal 16 to 19 or younger. The rults of this explic, appropriate sex-saturated culture and tn have been startlg: there have never been more children claimg to be transgenr, gay, lbian and bisexual, nor have we ever seen such high levels of sexual asslts by mors.

Usg phallometric tt sensivi to lculate the proportn of te pedophil among var groups of sex offenrs agast children, and takg to nsiratn prevly reported mean numbers of victims per offenr group, the rat of heterosexual to homosexual pedophil was lculated to be approximately 11:1. Probably a numeril majory of child moltatns volve a male adult and a female child, but given the small actn of homosexual practners, the number of homosexual moltatns is disproportnate to the percentage of homosexuals.

Nearly half of bisexual men and four ten gay men have experienced sexual vlence other than rape their lifetime, and though statistics regardg rape vary, is likely that the rate is higher or parable to heterosexual men.

A new study led by rearchers at Vanrbilt Universy Medil Center and Vanrbilt Universy found that 83% of lbian, gay, bisexual and queer (LGBQ) dividuals reported gog through adverse childhood experienc (ACE) such as sexual and emotnal abe, and worse mental health as adults when pared to their heterosexual peers.

Alhol and dg e among some gay and bisexual men n be a reactn to homophobia, discrimatn, or vlence they experienced due to their sexual orientatn and n ntribute to other mental health and physil problems. For some gay and bisexual men, alhol and illegal dg e, pecially methamphetam (meth), amyl nrat (poppers), and dgs ed to treat erectile dysfunctn (when a man has a hard time keepg an erectn durg sex), also ntribute to a higher chance of gettg HIV and other STDs.

72 MB] has shown that around 40% of gay men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime and around 47% of bisexual men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime.

Acrdg to data om the Youth Risk Behavr Survey (YRBS) nducted durg 2001-2009 seven stat and six large urban school districts, 14% to 31% of gay and lbian stunts across the s and 17% of 32% of bisexual stunts across the s had been forced to have sexual terurse at some pot their liv. Gay and bisexual men wh histori of childhood and adult sexual victimizatn are more likely to report greater numbers of sexually transmted fectns, creased sexual risk for human immunoficiency vis, and higher sexual pulsivy than men wh no history of sexual asslt. The cumulative impact of sexual abe, njunctn wh dividuals’ sexual mory stat, also n rult higher rat of sexual re-victimizatn, as well as anti-gay vlence and discrimatn.

The men often bottle up addnal trimental myths, such as men bee gay or bisexual bee they were sexually abed, and sexual mory men are obssed wh sex, and that they molt children at higher rat than straight men. Forty-four percent of lbian women have experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner their lifetime, while 26% of gay men have as well (that number creas to 37% for bisexual men). Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society.