Pri Month: It’s time to talk about the shockgly high rate of suici among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stori the Still Here project document the plex reasons.
Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- I WAS A GAY BOY WHO TRIED TO KILL MYSELF. NOW I KNOW IT WASN'T MY FLT.
- GAY TEEN SUICI: RISK FACTORS, STATISTICS, WHERE TO GET HELP
- DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay suicidal *
The “dramatic spike” has seen at least five murrs of LGBTQ people recent weeks, GLAAD wrote a statement about the killg of gay dancer O’Shae Sibley over the weekend a spected hate crime.
24-year-old Akira Ross, who was shot and killed at a Cedar Park, Texas, gas statn by a man who reportedly yelled a homophobic slur at her. Col Smh, a straight, cisgenr man, who was killed fendg an LGBTQ iend beg harassed by a man g homophobic slurs acrdg to The Oregonian.
The teenage spect and several others had emerged om the nvenience store and engaged Sibley g profani and homophobic ephets. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Homosexual suici is a ser issue and gay suici rat are startlg. Learn more about LGBTQIA+ suici and how to prevent . * gay suicidal *
While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
I WAS A GAY BOY WHO TRIED TO KILL MYSELF. NOW I KNOW IT WASN'T MY FLT.
Gay teen suici is a major ncern due to creased risk over straight youth. Learn about the gay suici statistics and gay suici hotle to fight back. * gay suicidal *
Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. No person should ever feel the need to take their life bee of their sexualy and is important to let people know there is help for gays wh prsn.
The reason talkg about homosexual suici is so cril is bee of the gay suici rat and suici attempt rat. Of urse, not every LGBTQIA+ person attempts suici – most don't – but those that do often do so bee of the strs of anti-gay stigma, discrimatn and harassment. It's also important to note that how homosexual suici is talked about n also fluence LGBTQIA+ suici risk.
GAY TEEN SUICI: RISK FACTORS, STATISTICS, WHERE TO GET HELP
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Cril to remember is that the more openly people talk about suici and homosexual suici and the ls stigma people feel around the issu, the more people n succsfully fight back agast LGBTQIA+ suici. Var theori abound as to why rat of suici and/or suicidal iatn are higher among youth who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex, or asexual (LGBTQ-IA).
One may, for stance, intify as transgenr and gay, stggle wh mental illns, rell memori of childhood abe, feel hopels, have accs to weapons, yet elect not to end one’s own life. Some of my earlit memori volved church lears preachg that homosexualy was immoral, an abomatn, that God did not love gay people. Felti and lleagu published their fdgs on ACEs, Matthew Shepard was sgled out for beg gay, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN
An ternatnal team of scientists recently found that gay men had ls gray matter volume the bra’s thalam regn, which n atrophy unr extreme strs, pared to heterosexual men. The team also found that creased gray matter volume this regn, which is rponsible for procsg external stimuli, was associated wh creased may believe that the reason LGBTQ+ people are more likely to die by suici or have mental health problems is bee homosexualy is “unnatural” or is a psychiatric ndn.