Pri Month: It’s time to talk about the shockgly high rate of suici among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stori the Still Here project document the plex reasons.
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NOT MY FLT I WAS BORN GAY: 19-YEAR-OLD MS SUICI OVER HOMOPHOBIA
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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. 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.
GAY SUICI
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. Meanwhile, s historic judgement on Sectn 377 2018 stat, “Counsellg practic will have to foc on providg support to homosexual clients to bee fortable wh who they are and get on wh their liv, rather than motivatg them for a change.
It’s bldgly obv that beg gay, lbian, trans, or bisexual isn’t a physil problem or a disease.