Natnally reprentative prevalence timat of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men who have served the U.S. ary - PMC

Contents:

• SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?
• NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE PREVALENCE TIMAT OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THE U.S. ARY
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• GAYS THE MILARY: NEW FACTS CONQUER OLD TABOOS

SO ANY GAY GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN THE MILARY OR NAVY POST HERE?

Got missned as an officer 2002 and am approachg my 12th year a gay man, 2002 - 2004 were the worst bee I was so aaid of gettg kicked out unr Don't Ask Don't those were technilly supposed to be among the bt years of my datg life! Surprisgly, I've found the Army to be the gay-iendlit branch (most of my good iends are straight Soldiers who know I'm gay and have been nothg but supportive) Anonymoreply 6Febary 9, 2014 9:51 PM.

Steve Clark Hall, a gay graduate om the class of 1975, said he knew gay classmat who were kicked out of the Amy and uld not return home to the fai who disowned them. “It is obv to me that the real problem is not homosexualy, but rather, the ary’s open and officially supported prejudice agast homosexuals who have the sire and pabily to serve their untry.

While this was seen as progrs at the time, Hall poted out how part of Clton’s platform was to allow gays, lbians, and bisexuals to openly serve the ary.

NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE PREVALENCE TIMAT OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THE U.S. ARY

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IntroductnHistorilly, timat of the number of ary personnel who are gay or bisexual have been ed to evaluate the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy Uned Stat ary, and of same-sex marriage benefs for ary personnel by the Congrsnal Budget Office[1–5]. Accurate timat of the number of ary personnel who are gay or bisexual are necsary to liver optimal health servic, cludg the provisn of remend HIV and STD preventn and re servic, as well as other sexual, reproductive, and behavral health servic [8]. While all ary personnel might be at risk of mental health or substance abe problems, pecially those who serve on bat tours, gay and bisexual ary personnel have been found to be at creased risk[15–20].

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

Gay and bisexual ary personnel might also experience stigma and victimizatn while servg[3, 21] studi have timated the percentage of U. In this study, we ed a natnally reprentative survey to lculate a direct timate of the percentage of men who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM among men aged 18–44 years who had served the ary.

Rponnts were asked about their sexual orientatn wh the qutn, “Do you thk of yourself as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or somethg else? ” If rponnts who had not reported their sexual orientatn as gay or bisexual but reported ≥ 1 male sex partner(s) were hierarchilly tegorized as other lculated the proportn of all U.

GAYS THE MILARY: NEW FACTS CONQUER OLD TABOOS

Men aged 18–44 years who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM and timated their mographic and personal characteristics, cludg age, race and ethnicy, tn level, metropolan statistil area (MSA) of rince, and ary service. Mal who were gay, bisexual, or other MSM by NSFG survey also performed bivariate analys to pare the proportns of men who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM, rpectively, among men who had served ary pared to men who had not served.

When stratified by NSFG survey cycle, we found that the percentag of men who reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM varied: among a weighted 55.

0% as other 1Characteristics of men aged 18–44 years who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex wh men (MSM) the Uned Stat, Natnal Survey of Fay Growth 2002, 2006–2010, and 2011–2013. Among men who served ary, the percentag who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other MSM did not differ between the 2002–2010 and 2011–2013 NSFG cycl, wh 3. Percentage of men aged 18–44 years who self-reported as gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex wh men (MSM) among men who served the ary pared to those who had not served the ary the Uned Stat, Natnal Survey of Fay Growth 2002, 2006–2010, 2011–2013.