No qutn that Arianna Huffgton is driven, but by what: Power? Fame? Money? Ias? Ials? When a woman has married a gay multi-lnaire, n for California ernor, and morphed om nservative Washgton pund to liberal L.A. activist, the answer isn't simple.
Contents:
- OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- GAY HUFFGTON POST NTRIBUTOR ARRTED FOR MAKG THREATS AGAST ATLANTA LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB
- DONALD TMP BRGS UP ARIANNA HUFFGTON’S GAY EX-HBAND LATT PUBLIC FD
OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
Obama Was A Coe-Usg Gay Htler, 'Ex-Classmate' Claims * huffington gay *
Only a few of the nam of the gay men this article are real. For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends.
“And told me two sentenc later that she knew I was gay.
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. * huffington gay *
” Gay characters the days are so monplace they’re even allowed to have flaws. 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.
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.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
The New Yorker published s profile of Arianna Huffgton. Though disappotgly far om the juicy takedown we hoped for, do nta a few tertg nuggets. We learn, for example, that the Republin-divorcée-turned-ter-publisher bizarrely "his" all three of her BlackBerrys her bathroom at night, even though she liv only wh a hoekeeper and her two dghters. Her gay ex-hband Michael Huffgton elaborat on how she knew of his tert men before their marriage, sayg, " my Hoton town hoe I sat down wh her and told her that I had dated women and men so that she would be aware of ." And Huffgton sounds downright proud of her lack of long-term iendships, sayg, "I metabolize experienc fast." But there's so much missg, so much that should be this 14-page story, startg first wh how she ns the Huffgton Post — would any male mogul be profiled at such length wh so ltle said about how he ns his bs? — and ntug through to juicer qutns about her datg life and cultlike relig gu. A few specifics: * huffington gay *
“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. In the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been legal sce 2001, gay men rema three tim more likely to suffer om a mood disorr than straight men, and 10 tim more likely to engage “suicidal self-harm. TTravis Salway, a rearcher wh the BC Centre for Disease Control Vanuver, has spent the last five years tryg to figure out why gay men keep killg themselv.
“The fg feature of gay men ed to be the lonels of the closet, ” he says. “But now you’ve got lns of gay men who have e out of the closet and they still feel the same isolatn. By the late 2000s, he was a social worker and epimlogist and, like me, was stck by the growg distance between his straight and gay iends.
He started to wonr if the story he had always heard about gay men and mental health was plete. When the dispary first me to light the ’50s and ’60s, doctors thought was a symptom of homosexualy self, jt one of many maniftatns of what was, at the time, known as “sexual versn. ” As the gay rights movement gaed steam, though, homosexualy disappeared om the DSM and the explanatn shifted to trma.
GAY HUFFGTON POST NTRIBUTOR ARRTED FOR MAKG THREATS AGAST ATLANTA LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB
The social media posts circulated around Atlanta’s gay muny prr to the club’s ll to police. Employe at the club told police that “they observed threateng remarks ma towards their tablishment on social media.” * huffington gay *
Gay men were beg kicked out of their own fai, their love liv were illegal. “That was the ia I had, too, ” Salway says, “that gay suici was a product of a bygone era, or was ncentrated among adolcents who didn’t see any other way out. The problem wasn’t jt suici, wasn’t jt afflictg teenagers and wasn’t jt happeng areas staed by homophobia.
He found that gay men everywhere, at every age, have higher rat of rdvascular disease, ncer, ntence, erectile dysfunctn, allergi and asthma—you name , we got . In Canada, Salway eventually disvered, more gay men were dyg om suici than om AIDS, and had been for years.
DONALD TMP BRGS UP ARIANNA HUFFGTON’S GAY EX-HBAND LATT PUBLIC FD
“We see gay men who have never been sexually or physilly asslted wh siar post-trmatic strs symptoms to people who have been bat suatns or who have been raped, ” says Alex Kroghlian, a psychiatrist at the Fenway Instute’s Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health. Gay men are, as Kroghlian puts , “primed to expect rejectn. Sce he looked to the data, Salway has started terviewg gay men who attempted suici and survived.
“When you ask them why they tried to kill themselv, ” he says, “most of them don’t mentn anythg at all about beg gay.