Why do so many gay and bisexual men die om suici?

Contents:

• NOT MY FLT I WAS BORN GAY: 19-YEAR-OLD MS SUICI OVER HOMOPHOBIA
• GAY SUICI

NOT MY FLT I WAS BORN GAY: 19-YEAR-OLD MS SUICI OVER HOMOPHOBIA

By India Today Web Dk: A 19-year-old boy mted suici Chennai after he was ridiculed for beg homosexual. It is not my flt that I was born gay, his Facebook post said.

Rearchers report JAMA Paediatrics pooled data of 35 studi and found that Transgenr youth were at hight risk, nearly six tim as likely to attempt suici as heterosexual activists say that spe the Supreme Court crimalisg homosexualy 2018, members of the muny still face discrimatn. We aimed to evaluate the psychosocial ntext, as well as the qualy of media reportg, of suici among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr people, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) populatn. Those who know him n hardly picture gay rights activist Anand Chandrani as the protagonist this story.

GAY SUICI

Wh much more social and faial prsure on them, is natural that homosexual youngsters are more vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and tennci, ” rmed psychiatrist Dr Sudhir Bhave.

Psychiatrist Dr Shreyas Magia explaed that their relatnships beg seen as ‘abnormal’ by the society at large meant a homosexual person uld not share the tails wh fay or iends, a factor that creased their distrs and ma them emotnally more vulnerable and agile. Speakg to The Better India, a gay profsnal workg at a startup Delhi, who wish to rema anonymo, rells the utter vastatn more than a ago when his middle-class parents rejected his homosexual inty. In fact, acrdg to Tejas, the therapist’s “alignment wh the society’s prejudic agast gay, lbian, Bi and trans inti may lead to rercg ternalized homonegativy leadg to queer distrs, prsn and suicidal iatn.

Ultimately, sendg someone who intifi as gay, lbian, trans, or Bi to a mental health facily to ‘fixg ’ is tantamount to a plete rejectn of a person’s inty.