Adults who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual are more likely than adults who intify as straight to experience ser thoughts of suici, mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos and they are more likely to e substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report.
Contents:
- UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
- IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
New data show higher percentag of lbian, gay and bisexual inti. * gay or lesbian *
Gay and lbian people are unique dividuals, jt like everyone else.
Gay is an adjective that scribe people who are physilly, romantilly, emotnally and/or spirually attracted to other people of the same genr.
In the past, “gay” specifilly referred to men who are attracted to men. Now, is mon for “gay” to be ed by anyone who is attracted to their same genr.
IS A LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL INTY MORE COMMON TODAY?
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * gay or lesbian *
Example: “I’ve always known that I am gay. ” / “I totally support my gay sister. Avoid sayg: “That person is a gay.
” (This “gay” as a noun, which don’t work. Some lbian women prefer to intify as “gay, ” and that’s ok. No one knows for sure what mak a person straight, gay, lbian, or even bisexual or transgenr.
Is te that I have to have sex wh someone of the same genr to know that I’m gay? Are all gay men are effemate and are all lbian women mascule?
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
* gay or lesbian *
Although n sometim seem like one type of gay person is shown over and over aga the media or on TV, gay people aren’t tomatilly effemate, and lbian women aren’t tomatilly mascule – fact, those stereotyp leave out a lot of other personali and characteristics. Gay and lbian people are unique dividuals, jt like everyone else, and n exprs themselv an fe number of ways!
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
There’s no wrong way to be gay or lbian. I feel like gay and lbian people only work certa typ of profsns. Answer:Actually, you n fd gay and lbian people all different typ of profsns!
Certa stereotyp offer a limed view on what gay and lbian people do for work. For example, not all gay men are terted fashn, theatre, or the arts. While there may be some jobs that tend to have more gay or lbian people them than others, often has to do wh the cultural acceptance they might fd that particular field.
Can gay people have stable romantic relatnships? There is no herent reason why gay or lbian upl would be unable to have a stable romantic relatnship. However, sce marriage is still illegal for same-sex upl many stat, gay and lbian relatnships have ls support om society.
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Advot for Youth – I Thk I Might Be LbianAdvot for Youth – I Thk I Might Be GayPFLAG – Be YourselfPlanned Parenthood – Sexual Orientatn. Recent survey data the US and the UK revealed that the proportn of the populatn who intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual has risen slightly and that this trend is particularly salient among the youngt generatn: Generatn Z. In the UK, only a slight majory of Gen Z members dite that they have an exclively heterosexual attractn, while the US, a Gallup poll dit that roughly 15% of Gen Z intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual – pared to 7.
GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
9% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual when asked about their sexual inty today. Percentage of each generatn intifyg as Bisexual, Gay or Lbian based on Amerin Gallup 2020 data. 9% of the Baby Boomers surveyed the US dited they were not heterosexual, many more may have still had same-sex experienc throughout their lifpan, but they simply do not firmly intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.
It is much easier to e out today as lbian, gay, or bisexual than was even jt 10 years ago, let alone 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. In Canada, for example, any dividual 53 years of age or olr 2021 was born at a time when homosexualy was a crimal offence.
Ined, some dividuals may have been gay, lbian, or bisexual and simply never me out to even themselv. There is, however, also a much darker explanatn for why we see fewer dividuals om past generatns intifyg as lbian, gay, or bisexual today than we do om the younger generatns. The elephant the room is HIV/AIDS epimic that claimed nearly an entire generatn of gay and bisexual men.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Gay and bisexual men om the Baby Boomer generatn were between 16 and 34 years of age at the peak of the HIV/AIDS epimic North Ameri.
While is impossible to ever have accurate populatn statistics on a hidn populatn, is timated that at least 10% of gay men the Uned Stat between the ag of 25 and 44 had died by 1995. Siarly strikg numbers were found across major ci the US wh large gay populatns.
Th, any attempt to “unt” the number of gay men the Baby Boomer or Gen X generatns needs to nsir the number of people who are simply no longer alive to answer the qutn. Is easier to image a future as a gay person today? In the US data, the percentage of dividuals intifyg as lbian or gay has creased, but not nearly as much as the percentage of those intifyg as bisexual (.