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John A. Blando, Twice Hidn: Olr Gay and Lbian Coupl, Friends, and Intimacy, Generatns: Journal of the Amerin Society on Agg, Vol. 25, No. 2, Intimacy and Agg (Summer 2001), pp. 87-89

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A GAY MAN AT MIDLIFE PONRS BEG LONELY AND ‘INVISIBLE’

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For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends.

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In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot. Public support for gay marriage has climbed om 27 percent 1996 to 61 percent 2016.

” Gay characters the days are so monplace they’re even allowed to have flaws.

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Still, even as we celebrate the sle and speed of this change, the rat of prsn, lonels and substance abe the gay muny rema stuck the same place they’ve been for s. Gay people are now, pendg on the study, between 2 and 10 tim more likely than straight people to take their own liv.

THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.

In a survey of gay men who recently arrived New York Cy, three-quarters suffered om anxiety or prsn, abed dgs or alhol or were havg risky sex—or some batn of the three. Dpe all the talk of our “chosen fai, ” gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women.

I’m a perpetually sgle gay guy who was raised a bright blue cy by PFLAG parents. “Marriage equaly and the chang legal stat were an improvement for some gay men, ” says Christopher Stults, a rearcher at New York Universy who studi the differenc mental health between gay and straight men.

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