Stigma and Discrimatn Affects Gay and Bisexual Men's Health | CDC

Contents:

• WHAT IF BEG GAY WAS THE NORM? ‘LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?’ FILM DEPICTS WORLD WHERE BEG STRAIGHT IS ‘ABNORMAL’ [VIDEO]
• WHAT IF BEG GAY WAS THE NORM? 'LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?' FILM DEPICTS WORLD WHERE BEG STRAIGHT IS 'ABNORMAL' [VIDEO].
• BEG “GAY” THE NORM, “STRAIGHT” MORY SHORT FILM
• IF BEG GAY WERE THE NORM.
• U.S. ACCEPTANCE OF GAY/LBIAN RELATNS IS THE NEW NORMAL
• EFFECTS OF TRADNAL GENR ROLE NORMS AND RELIG FUNDAMENTALISM ON SELF-INTIFIED HETEROSEXUAL MEN'S ATTUS, ANGER, AND AGGRSN TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIANS

WHAT IF BEG GAY WAS THE NORM? ‘LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?’ FILM DEPICTS WORLD WHERE BEG STRAIGHT IS ‘ABNORMAL’ [VIDEO]

Image a world where beg gay was the norm -- where children are born and raised a society that sends the msage that beg straight is disgtg and a to WgSpan Pictur, wrer and director Kim Roc Shields brgs the trigug thought to life the short film “Love is All You Need?, ” which follows Ashley Curtis, a baby girl born to two mothers, who disvers her oppose-sex attractn as a young girl and nstantly hears om everyone -- her parents, relig lears and school officials -- that she nnot love a boy. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

WHAT IF BEG GAY WAS THE NORM? 'LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?' FILM DEPICTS WORLD WHERE BEG STRAIGHT IS 'ABNORMAL' [VIDEO].

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD).

In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important. For those of you wonrg why I chose to wre normal as ‘norm’-al, is bee this article seeks to addrs whether homosexualy, a generally persistg sexual attractn towards members of the same sex as one’s own, nforms to a norm. It was only when the gay movement started gag tractn that beme a subject for nsiratn polil and medil circl, which until then had seen as a viance om the acceptable heterosexual system, and th somethg that threatened the existg orr.

BEG “GAY” THE NORM, “STRAIGHT” MORY SHORT FILM

(Photo Cred: Pixabay) Th, while homosexualy as a soc-sexual phenomenon and sexual inti that weren’t clud the male-female bary were experienced by the ancients Greece, Rome, Mopotamia and Babylon, morn science only acknowledged when beme tertwed wh s polil facets (Michel Fouult is the thory on the medilizatn of sexualy). However, homosexualy is seen as viant some societi, and not others, highlightg the social nstctn (social factors of a particular settg creatg certa expectatns and ias around what is acceptable and how thgs ought to be) of what is nsired to be ‘norm’-al and ab-‘norm’-al a society. Concln As both the acceptance and rejectn of homosexualy crease societi all over the world, heterosexualy still predomat the normative sphere (why else would homosexuals have to ‘e out, ’ while heterosexualy be prumed).

One theory allows the equatn of homosexualy to be siar to left-handns, a naturally occurrg phenomenon that should not be shunned, but stead accepted as a ‘normal variatn’ the sexual make-up of a human beg.

A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) as well as subsequent ANOVAS showed that only the high normative prsure ndn participants exprsed ls rejectn to timacy and ls negative emotns agast homosexuals, when pared to the simple norm-activatn and the ntrol ndns. We nclud that a high anti-prejudice prsure regardg homosexuals uld rce blatant prejudice but not subtle prejudice, nsirg that the exprsn of negative emotns creased while the exprsn of posive emotns remaed stable. Y is fairly low budget and the actg is not "perfect" however if you are straight like me and ALLOW yourself to go there, to image this world exists and put yourself the sho of if you were gay and the outst and the lonels and the pa that uld occur.

IF BEG GAY WERE THE NORM.

In rponse to another long-term trend qutn, Gallup fds a close divisn between those who believe beg gay or lbian is a tra a person is born wh (40%) and those sayg is due to upbrgg and other environmental factors (35%). Amerins' acceptance of gays and lbians as equal members of society has creased steadily the past to the pot that half or more now agree that beg gay is morally acceptable, that gay relatns ought to be legal, and that gay or lbian upl should have the right to legally marry.

Dpe the persistence of stereotyp that portray lbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several s of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream medil and mental health anizatns this untry to nclu that the orientatns reprent normal forms of human experience. Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life.

U.S. ACCEPTANCE OF GAY/LBIAN RELATNS IS THE NEW NORMAL

The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny. Th, is not surprisg that lbians and gay men who feel they mt nceal their sexual orientatn report more equent mental health ncerns than do lbians and gay men who are more open; they may even have more physil health problems. Lbian, gay, and bisexual youth who do well spe strs—like all adolcents who do well spe strs—tend to be those who are socially petent, who have good problem-solvg skills, who have a sense of tonomy and purpose, and who look forward to the future.

If they are a heterosexual relatnship, their experienc may be que siar to those of people who intify as heterosexual unls they choose to e out as bisexual; that se, they will likely face some of the same prejudice and discrimatn that lbian and gay dividuals enunter. Homophobia, stigma (negative and ually unfair beliefs), and discrimatn (unfairly treatg a person or group of people) agast gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men still exist the Uned Stat and n negatively affect the health and well-beg of this muny.

EFFECTS OF TRADNAL GENR ROLE NORMS AND RELIG FUNDAMENTALISM ON SELF-INTIFIED HETEROSEXUAL MEN'S ATTUS, ANGER, AND AGGRSN TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIANS

The negative beliefs and actns n affect the physil and mental health of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men, whether they seek and are able to get health servic, and the qualy of the servic they may receive. Inspired by the civil rights movement’s challenge to racism, the antiwar movement’s nontatn wh the ary-dtrial plex and the women’s movement battle agast patriarchy, gay activists set their sights not only on disptg the public prentatns of a number of psychiatry’s leadg spokmen but, most importantly, refg the APA’s DSM.

His nomenclature promis reveal the shiftg terra of tellectual engagment: “sexual orientatn disturbance” (1973), “ego-dystonic homosexualy” (1980) and, fally, “sexual disorrs not otherwise classified” (1986). Homosexualy is assuredly no advantage, but is nothg to be ashamed of, no vice, no gradatn, nnot be classified as an illns; we nsir to be a variatn of the sexual functn produced by a certa arrt of sexual velopment.