Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health | CDC

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

1 Ined, timat suggt that 9% to 27% of gay and bisexual men and MSM the Uned Stat are currently livg wh HIV fectn. 11 In addn, populatn-based surveys over the last have nsistently documented elevated risk for suici attempts among gay and bisexual men pared wh heterosexual men.

Further, as relied on registered same-genr domtic partnership stat to intify gay and bisexual men, the earlier study did not acunt for the possible health benefs of livg wh a partner27 and th may have unrtimated mortaly risk for MSM general. Th, timat om men livg admistratively documented partnerships likely reprent only a small segment of the gay and bisexual male one of the first natnal health data sets the Uned Stat to measure markers of sexual orientatn routely, the Natnal Health and Nutrn Examatn Survey s third eratn (NHANES III; 1988–1994) ially began s asssment of sexual orientatn wh a rtricted set of qutns pertag to lifetime histori of the genrs of rponnts’ sexual partners. Although suici-related aths were relatively rare the NHANES III sample (n =18), if they occurred among homosexually experienced men at the same rate reported the recent study of Danish men registered domtic partnerships, 24 would have been tectable the current study.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH

Although most gay-intified men report lifetime same-genr sexual experienc, this is not te of men who intify as bisexual.

25 This discrepancy impli that generalizg fdgs om the current study to gay and bisexual-intified men, general, should be done wh some utn. For example, several recent studi have reported higher rat of tobac e among gay and bisexual men than among heterosexual men.