Straight people marriag and gays long-term, timate habatn relatnships may pick up unhealthy habs om their partners, U.S. rearchers say.
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BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
So, the study found that gay and bi men the U. When to HIV, gay and bisexual men acunted for 48 percent of the more than 1 ln people livg wh the disease the U. The rearch also found that 53 percent of newly diagnosed HIV-posive people were gay or bi.
Studi show that gay men e illic dgs at a higher rate than the general populatn. "Gay men are signifintly more likely to have ed marijuana, stimulants, sedativ, e, and party dgs (ecstasy, ketame, and GHB), " acrdg to the Pri Instute. "The e of crystal meth gay and bisexual men has creased dramatilly recent years as well.
We e an effort to sport perfect bodi, more and more gay men are rortg to steroid e before htg the gym. Gay and bisexual teens are more than six tim more likely to abe steroids than their straight peers, acrdg to a recent study by the Fenway Instute.
GAY OR STRAIGHT, UPL SWAP BAD HABS
Problems wh body image are more prevalent among gay men than their straight peers, leadg to eatg disorrs like bulimia and anorexia. The Natnal Eatg Disorrs Organizatn reports that gay men are disproportnately found to have body image disturbanc and eatg disorr behavr when pared wh straight men. Gay men are thought to only reprent about five percent of the total male populatn, but 42 percent of men wh eatg disorrs intify as gay.
By parison, gay men reported g tobac at a 50 percent higher rate than straight men. We stay abive than half of gay and lbian upl (56. For gay men, was 40 percent, and 21 percent for straight men.
Internalized homophobia, social stigma, and fear of rejectn by fay members are jt a few of the reasons LGBT people ci not to e out. An unnventnal history of homosexualy for rears of The Deviant's War by Eric Cervi.