Homophily, Close Friendship, and Life Satisfactn among Gay, Lbian, Heterosexual, and Bisexual Men and Women - PMC

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• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• SEXUAL PRACTIC AND SATISFACTN AMONG GAY AND HETEROSEXUAL MEN ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS: A COMPARISON USG COARSENED EXACT MATCHG A U.S. NATNAL SAMPLE
• SEXUAL DIRE AND FANTASI THE LGBT+ COMMUNY: FOC ON LBIAN WOMEN AND GAY MEN
• IS FEMMEPHOBIA GAY CULTURE CONTRIBUTG TO LONELS?
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
• THUNR CUTTG RUDY GAY CLEARS WAY FOR JACK WHE SIGNG
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
• HOMOPHILY, CLOSE FRIENDSHIP, AND LIFE SATISFACTN AMONG GAY, LBIAN, HETEROSEXUAL, AND BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?
• REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS
• HIGHER RAT OF BODY DISSATISFACTN GAY MEN LEADG TO A RISE COSMETIC SURGERY : PLASTIC AND RENSTCTIVE SURGERY – GLOBAL OPEN

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

Heterosexual men were ls likely than gay men to ually-always receive (27%; 61%) or give (37%; 68%) oral sex when timate the past month; were ls likely to view pornography wh their partner (35%; 61%); but were more likely to give their partner massag the past year to improve their sex liv (71%; 58%).

[48] reported the prence of rape fantasi such as “beg forced to have sex by a woman”, “beg forced to do oral sex to a woman”, and “beg raped by a woman” both lbian and heterosexual MenEarly studi found many dividuals perceived gay men as mentally ill or sexually perverted [49, 50], emphasizg variatns personaly and behavr such as anxiety, prsn, and addictn [51].

Lippa [52] and Wellg [53] reported that MSM had lower level of sexual sire pared to heterosexual men; nversely, Holmberg and Blair [30] showed that gay men sred morately higher than heterosexual men and women on different exprsns of sire (solary, si the uple and for an attractive person). Moreover, olr men were more likely to ask for the sexual practic they wanted [55], as a rult of a greater experience and nscns about their own sexual sire and studi foced on the prence of higher “pathologil” sexual drive gay men, nsirg as eher addictn, pulsn, or hypersexualy. Acknowledgg how stereotyp may fluence sexual behavr may also help to better unrstand sexual pulsn among gay men [60] stereotyp, one of the reasons why sexual pulsn was associated wh homosexualy is that hypersexual men generally reported non-exclively heterosexual fantasi and behavrs [61], but an epimlogil study nfirmg that MSM are at higher risk for sexual addictn than other men is still lackg.

SEXUAL PRACTIC AND SATISFACTN AMONG GAY AND HETEROSEXUAL MEN ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS: A COMPARISON USG COARSENED EXACT MATCHG A U.S. NATNAL SAMPLE

[78] addrsed the role of mood a group of gay men: when facg prsive stat, 16% of men typilly experienced creased sexual tert, while 47% reported a crease; when experiencg anxiety, 24% reported an creased sexual drive, whereas 39% reported a homosexual fantasi and sire is strongly associated wh a perceived negative social climate regardg same-sex sexual behavr and may be functnal for some men dangero ntexts, such as some Arabic untri [79].

SEXUAL DIRE AND FANTASI THE LGBT+ COMMUNY: FOC ON LBIAN WOMEN AND GAY MEN

In addn, gay men reported ls dysfunctnal sexual beliefs related to “macho ias, ” “partner’s power, ” and “partner’s sexual satisfactn” pared to heterosexual men [86] batn of some illic dgs and sexualy (Chemsex, Party and Play—PnP) among MSM has also some tertg nnectn wh sexual sire. In this sense, should be regnized how the e of dgs, although very risky and harmful, may allow a different kd of liberatn and a pleasurable sexual experience for some gay men [87] FantasiEarly studi [89, 90] highlighted that gay men seem to engage more equently erotic fantasi than heterosexuals, both durg masturbatn and partnered sexual activy.

If men are teased as children for beg emotnally sensive and vulnerable and then experience femmephobia due to openly seekg emotnal timacy and/or romantic relatnships gay men’s muni as adults, such experienc uld rerce the predomance of avoidant attachment dynamics.

IS FEMMEPHOBIA GAY CULTURE CONTRIBUTG TO LONELS?

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. “The difference average life satisfactn between gay, lbian and bisexual people pared wh heterosexual people is parable magnu to the difference you see between people wh a morate disabily and people who are not disabled, ” said profsor Wilks, who thored the study.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Poll rponnts also reported a greater level of satisfactn wh acceptance of gay and lbian people than any of the 20 other issu Gallup tracked this while satisfactn on many of the other issu creased this year, the numbers on gay and lbian dividuals grew substantially: In 2022, 62% of survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gays and lbians the natn, up om 55% 2021 and 56% 2020. After years of unrelentg Rsian media attacks on the LGBT muny (not to mentn the ever-creasg rat of physil attacks for which the anti-gay mpaign provis ver), what uld be more hearteng than apparently ordary Rsians showg solidary wh a group of boys who so fortably habed a two-mute homoerotic performance?

Contrast this to the Rsian social media sndal of the beard Atrian cross-drser Concha Wurst’s victory the 2014 Eurovisn ntt, shortly after the oter of Ukraian Print Viktor Yanovich and the Rsian anexatn of Crimea and not long after Rsia’s adoptn of the gay propaganda law.

A study published by the Open Universy has found that gay upl are likely to be happier their relatnships than their heterosexual unterparts and several reasons have been posed, om ls genr stereotyp featurg the relatnship to a historil predisposn for ner ’s take a look at few more lsons to learn om our same-sex unterparts. Much of this rearch has emphasized the importance of close iendships for gay men and lbians bee they are at a greater risk for velopg adverse mental health out pared to their heterosexual unterparts [2, 5] and iendship may migate risks to mental health [6–7] men and lbians particular receive more substantial social support om iends than heterosexual men and women [5, 8].

THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED

” Biphobia impli that bisexual dividuals endure a unique suatn regardg iendships, given that many gay men, lbians, and heterosexual men and women regard the bisexual inty as an unstable one pared to more “legimate” inti—the dichotomo tegori of “gay” and “straight” [4, 10]. Sce rearch dit that the celebratn of birthdays is pecially important among women [20], and that sharg posive events is an important ponent of pannate close iendship [1], we asked rponnts how many people they would “expect to do somethg” wh them to celebrate their Homophily by Sexual OrientatnThe send objective of our study was to exame if genr homophily—a well-tablished phenomenon heterosexual iendships—exists to a lser gree among GLB men and women.

Homophily is the notn that people affiliate wh others who are siar to themselv [21], and homophily the form of same-genr relatnships may be mon among heterosexuals part bee cross-genr iendships n add the plitg factor of possible romantic or sexual tensn or the jealoy of one’s partner [22–23], which may be ls mon among gay men and lbians.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Gay men and lbians already do not nform to tradnal genred expectatns for romantic relatnships, and may be more fortable transgrsg agast genred expectatns for iendship [24] is a stereotype that gay men and heterosexual women equently pair together for iendships and this is possible, part, due to the supposed asexual nature of the iendships [25–26].

When lookg at the sexual orientatn parisons, a posive beta would dite that GLB participants reported more same-genr iends than heterosexual participants (reference group), whereas a negative beta would dite that GLB participants reported fewer same-genr iends than heterosexual 4Degree of Homophily by Genr, Sexual Orientatn, and Demographics (Hypothis 2) of Homophily (number of same-sex m cross-sex iends)Full SampleMenWomenTalk SexCall at NightCelebrate BirthdayTalk SexCall at NightCelebrate BirthdayTalk SexCall at NightCelebrate Birthday.

AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS

There were teractns of iendship satisfactn wh genr and wh the dummy d gay/lbian variable, suggtg that the importance of iendship satisfactn would vary across differg genrs and sexual 5Regrsn of Friendship Satisfactn and Total Number of Friends on Life Satisfactn (Hypothis 3) MenL. DiscsnKey FdgsSexual orientatn differenc iendship patterns In ntrast to the hypothis that heterosexual participants would report fewer iends than gay men, lbians, or bisexual participants, regrsn analys revealed only small differenc when factors that vary wh sexual orientatn and number of iends were ntrolled. This was unsurprisg when nsirg O’Meara’s intifitn of the management of sexual attractn as one of the key challeng faced by heterosexual cross-genr iends; avoidg the iendships or keepg them to a mimum may be an effective way of sisteppg unwanted sexual tensn [35] hypothized that homophily would be ls mon among GLB dividuals.

THUNR CUTTG RUDY GAY CLEARS WAY FOR JACK WHE SIGNG

Although parative studi examg the iendships between the groups have tend to be gay, lbian, and bisexual men and women to the sgular tegory of “sexual mori” [39, 41], our sample was large enough to nsir iendship differenc across each genr and sexual orientatn separately. The greater reliance on iends among gay men, lbians, and bisexual men and women has been te of past horts due to historil ntexts and more prevalent homophobia—however, bee of the shift toward acceptance of GLB dividuals, the trends may not persist prent and future horts. Among the people ad om jectg silin were Dovak who died last November, a Miami trans woman who died om jectns to her butt (Oneal Ron Morris, the woman who jected her, was sentenced to 10 years for practicg medice whout a license), and last month, Tumblr gay celebry Tank Hafertepen — the partner of the man Dovak allegedly went to for advice — died of a lung hemorrhage ed by, part, silin jectn syndrome, acrdg to his ath certifite obtaed by Rollg Stone.

Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release nsirg this Lat Amerin top 10, many ntenrs narrowly missed the fal selectn, cludg Argentian gay crime flick Burnt Money (2000), Uguayan g-out chamber piece Leo’s Room (2009) and lbian bpic Reachg for the Moon (2013), about the romance between Amerin poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian archect Lota Macedo Soar.

Dpe a reputatn for reprsn, this sharp, irristible edy, spiced wh a love of mp that breath the same air as Pedro Almodóvar, is surprisgly cril of the Castro regime and sympathetic to s gay protagonist (Néstor Almendros’s 1984 documentary Improper Conduct is a damng dictment of Cuba’s homophobic polici). Suici risk among lbian, gay, and bisexual adults vari nsirably pendg on the tersectn between sexual inty and other aspects of inty, such as genr, age, and race/ethnicy, acrdg to a study led by rearchers at the Natnal Instute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the Natnal Instut of Health. The study, which examed data om a natnally reprentative survey of adults the Uned Stat, also showed that lbian, gay, and bisexual adults are overall more likely to report suici-related thoughts, plans, and attempts wh the past 12 months pared wh heterosexual adults.

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

“This study monstrat the importance of askg about sexual inty natnal data llectn efforts, and highlights the prsg need for suici preventn servic that addrs the specific experienc and needs of lbian, gay, and bisexual adults of different genrs, ag, and race and ethnic groups, ” said Rajeev Ramchand, Ph. MeasurDemographic Characteristics We rporated measur for sex (male, female), sexualy (heterosexual, gay, lbian, bisexual, other), genr inty (transgenr, nontransgenr), age (6 tegori, rangg om 18–24 to 65+), annual hoehold e (ordal sle rangg om 0/ls than $10, 000 to 9/$100, 000 or greater), tn (ls than high school, high school or GED, some llege, bachelor’s or higher), and race/ethnicy (Whe, Non-Hispanic; Black, Non-Hispanic; Other, Non-Hispanic; Hispanic). Relatnship stcture was not associated wh sex, tn, or hoehold e bivariate 1Demographic characteristics by relatnship stctureFull samplen (%)Monogamyn (%)Openn (%)NCNMn (%)Relatnship stcture Monogamy2010 (89%)––– Open relatnship 83 (4%)––– Nonnsensual nonmonogamy 178 (8%)–––Sex Male1098 (48%)962 (48%)50 (61%)86 (49%) Female1172 (52%)1048 (52%)32 (39%)91 (51%)Sexualyc Heterosexual/straight2155 (94%)1937 (96%)51 (61%)166 (94%) Gay/lbian 58 (3%)34 (2%)19 (23%)4 (2%) Bisexual/other 58 (3%)38 (2%)12 (15%)8 (4%)Genr intya Transgenr 23 (1%)19 (1%)3 (4%)1 (0%) Nontransgenr2248 (99%)1991 (99%)80 (96%)177 (100%)Age 18–24 169 (7%)134 (7%)11 (13%)24 (14%) 25–34 510 (22%)470 (23%)15 (19%)15 (14%) 35–44 434 (19%)370 (18%)22 (27%)42 (24%) 45–54 397 (17%)347 (17%)17 (20%)33 (18%) 55–64 423 (19%)380 (19%)10 (12%)33 (18%) 65+ 338 (15%)309 (15%)8 (9%)21 (12%)Hoehold e Unr $10, 000 99 (4%)83 (4%)6 (7%)10 (6%) $10, 000–29, 999 329 (15%)271 (13%)19 (22%)41 (23%) $30, 000–49, 999 395 (17%)366 (18%)13 (16%)17 (9%) $50, 000–74, 999 439 (19%)395 (20%)13 (16%)31 (19%) $75–99, 999 376 (17%)331 (16%)12 (15%)33 (19%) $100, 000 or more 631 (28%)564 (28%)21 (25%)46 (26%)Edutn Ls than high school 235 (10%)193 (10%)14 (17%)27 (16%) High school 679 (30%)607 (30%)19 (23%)53 (30%) Some llege 648 (29%)566 (28%)28 (34%)54 (30%) Bachelor’s or higher 708 (31%)644 (32%)21 (26%)43 (24%)Race/ethnicyb Whe, Non-Hispanic1568 (69%)1413 (70%)44 (53%)111 (62%) Black, Non-Hispanic 228 (10%)183 (9%)13 (16%)32 (18%) Other, Non-Hispanic 153 (7%)137 (7%)11 (13%)5 (3%) Hispanic 322 (14%)277 (14%)15 (18%)30 (17%)As noted above, addnal bivariate analys addrsed relatnship stctur among participants wh different sexual orientatns.

HOMOPHILY, CLOSE FRIENDSHIP, AND LIFE SATISFACTN AMONG GAY, LBIAN, HETEROSEXUAL, AND BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN

When analyzg the whole sample, approximately 2% of heterosexual participants, 32% of gay participants, 5% of lbian participants, 22% of bisexual participants, and 14% of those who scribed their sexuali as “other” reported beg open relatnships; approximately 8% of heterosexual participants, 14% of gay participants, 6% of lbian participants, 18% of bisexual participants, and 6% of those who selected “other” for sexualy reported nonnsensual non-monogamy (p <.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

When analyzg male participants, approximately 3% of heterosexual mal, 33% of gay mal, 23% of bisexual mal, and 24% of “other” mal reported open relatnships; approximately 8% of heterosexual mal, 14% of gay mal, 34% of bisexual mal, and 6% of “other” mal reported nonnsensual nonmonogamy (p <. When analyzg female participants, approximately 2% of heterosexual femal, 0% of gay femal, 5% of lbian femal, 22% of bisexual femal, and 8% of “other” femal reported open relatnships; approximately 7% of heterosexual femal, 0% of gay femal, 6% of lbian femal, 12% of bisexual femal, and 6% of “other” femal reported nonnsensual nonmonogamy (p <. Lbian and gay muni, and the femist muni wh which they have historilly overlapped, have long celebrated the valu of sexual diversy over the sexual nformy reprented by marriage and the ethil importance of sexual straight-talkg rather than the double-standards so equently observed marriage’s vicy.

It is large part bee of femist and gay novatns livg that marriage today is creasgly unrstood not as a relig but a social relatn; characterised not by male domatn but equaly and mutualy between the sex; valued not terms of s ntractual basis but terms of s ongog ntributn to a person’s sense of well-beg; and mataed not until ath-do--part but for as long as both parti fd satisfactn .

Racial/ethnic mory LGBs relied on LGB siar others at the same rate at Whe LGBs but, notably, racial/ethnic mory LGBs reported receivg fewer dimensns of prevalence of negative mental and physil health out is signifintly higher among lbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs) than their heterosexual peers (Kg, Semlyen, Tai, Killaspy, Osborn, Popely, & Nazareth, 2008; Lick, Durso, & Johnson, 2013).

HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?

Addnally, a recent analysis of mographic shifts the US populatn dit that neighborhoods are beg ls segregated by sexual orientatn, as same-sex upl wh children (which tend to be more often female then male) may be movg out of tradnally urban gay neighborhoods (Sprg, 2013).

Havg siar others available for support, advice, and as role mols n be helpful to young people negotiatg the procs of g out, which is sential to rcg ternalized homophobia and creatg a posive trajectory of LGB inty velopment (Elizur & Mtzer, 2001; Jordon & Deluty, 1998). Furthermore, for sexual mory youth, social support om peers ( the form of Gay-Straight Allianc), parents, and other adults is sential for enhancg health, well-beg, and tnal out— out that are negatively impacted by mory strs experienced by sexual mory youth (Detrie & Lease, 2007; Hatzenbuehler, Birkett, Van Wagenen, & Meyer, 2014; Ryan et al., 2009; Toomy, Ryan, Diaz, & Rsell, 2011).

REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS

After adjtg for the nfound nature of socenomic stat and race/ethnicy, ltle to no differenc rema the social support works of Whe and racial/ethnic mory dividuals the general populatn (Griff et al., 2006), as well as specifilly among HIV-posive gay and bisexual men (e.

Participants were eligible if they were 18-59 years-old, NYC rints for two years or more who uld munite English and self-intified as: a) lbian, gay, or bisexual or straight/heterosexual; b) male or female and were assigned the same sex at birth; and c) Whe, Black or Lato (participants may have ed other inty terms, such as queer or Hispanic, referrg to the social groups). It is plsible, or at least nsistent wh this fdg, that lbians and bisexual women's works were more siar to heterosexuals' bee lbians and bisexual women are rejected by their fay of orig ls equently than gay and bisexual men or bee lbians and bisexual women are better at matag relatnships wh fay than are gay and bisexual men.

HIGHER RAT OF BODY DISSATISFACTN GAY MEN LEADG TO A RISE COSMETIC SURGERY : PLASTIC AND RENSTCTIVE SURGERY – GLOBAL OPEN

” Brian Brown — the executive director for California of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the leadg sgle-issue anti-gay-marriage group, led by people wh close ti to lears the Catholic Church and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — boasted after the Grand Hyatt prott that Mr. 5 ln to a mpaign to pass Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage the state, proponents outspent opponents more than five to pro-gay-marriage activists ually creded chang their persuasive msagg to their improved mpaigns, their most obv new advantage me the form of rourc.

There was only one week 2012 when anti-gay-marriage ads outnumbered pro-gay-marriage ads the stat wh November ballot measur, and the largt major media markets, pro-gay-marriage mpaigners averaged a two-to-one advertisg then, lls for boytts — as part of a broar iologil e rather than a narrow prott agast specific bs practic — have grown so equent that Amerin polics often feels like a proxy war between rporatns.