Highlights of the specific mental health needs among gay and bisexual men.
Contents:
- MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
- DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN): natnal work of tors, stunts, and lol chapters workg to give stunts a safe, supportive, and LGBTQ+ clive tn. Transgenr youth face further dispari as they are twice as likely to experience prsive symptoms, serly nsir suici, and attempt suici pared to cisgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, queer and qutng youth. High school stunts who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual are more than four tim as likely to have attempted suici pared to their heterosexual peers.
DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
Medilly Reviewed by Isabel Lowell, MD on July 15, 2021If you’re LGBTQ -- lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or nonbary, or queer -- your genr and sexualy n affect your mental health and wellns. The most mon explanatn is the mory strs theory, which holds that beg part of a sexual or genr inty mory -- whether that’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or nonbary -- leads to more discrimatn om, turn, leads to greater mental strs for members of the mory group, says Amir K. If you’re LGBTQ and you’re faced wh rejectn -- eher om your iends or fay, at work, or om a relig muny -- n be hard to al addn to rejectn, inty-based shame -- such as homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia -- as well as bullyg -- n lead to LGBTQ muny is one of the most targeted muni the U.
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people experience the followg mental health challeng: emotnal distrs, stigmatisatn, victimisatn, discrimatn and barriers to accsg healthre servic. Keywords: LGBT, mental health dispari, discrimatn, stigmatisatn, victimisatnIntroductnThe acronym LGBTQ (also LGBTQAP+, LGBTQA, GLBTIQ, LGBT, LGBTQ and other alternat) is an umbrella term that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer or qutng people.
This acronym has s origs the shorter versn lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), which vers a heterogeneo group of LGBT people who often feature together as a group efforts to ga better social reprentatn and more polil support (Salmen 2015:11).
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
The LGBT dividuals have unique experienc that are shaped by multiple factors, such as race/ethnicy, soc-enomic stat, geographil lotn and age, not jt sexual orientatn (Farmer & Yancu 2015:37) lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people differ om ‘tradnal’ mori two aspects: (1) they are not necsarily regnisable through physil characteristics and (2) they are still perceived many ntexts as actg agast natural procs (Takács 2015:10).
The people suffer om var forms of soc-enomic and cultural jtic, but mostly they feel they are nied regnn, meang that heterosexualy is privileged and homosexualy is valuated (Takács 2015:9). The belief that other sexual orientatns are abnormal or ferr to heterosexualy is a source of opprsn, rultg heterosexism and homophobic attus, creatg a hostile climate for LGBT people (Mostert, Gordon & Kriegler 2015:116; Salmen 2015:11). N = 914 subjects who had sexual partners of the same sex the past 12 months, the past 5 years, or sce age 18, reprentative sample of sexual mori om the non-stutnalised English-speakg USA populatn aged 18 and vtigate whether stctural stigma (livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice) creas the risk of premature mortaly for sexual mori.