Deprsn Is Killg Gay Men | Psychology Today

lonely and gay

Gay men experience more prsn and suici, but help is available.

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HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY

Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * lonely and gay *

Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory.

At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player. I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.

GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL

* lonely and gay *

For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history.

DEPRSN IS KILLG GAY MEN

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * lonely and gay *

As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.

LONELS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND TERSEX PEOPLE AGED 50 AND OVER

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.

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