Gay youths are more than twice as likely to have sleep trouble, study fds

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• GAY YOUTHS ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE SLEEP TROUBLE, STUDY FDS
• MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
• GAY 15 YEAR OLD SLEEP OVER

GAY YOUTHS ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE SLEEP TROUBLE, STUDY FDS

A recent thread on Redd asked gay men if they also do this one particular thg to help them fall asleep at night. “Anybody sleep better while holdg their balls?, ” wonred Erd97 on an AskGayBros thread.

Which is ironic, beg gay, but we are mutants and proud of . (source: redd/AskGayBros).

We are both gay men and have traveled many tim together over the years wh few problems and a hell of a lot of fun. Like many gay men, our platonic iendship began wh a roll the hay. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs.

MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?

While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

GAY 15 YEAR OLD SLEEP OVER

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for years.It was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify,” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on.

Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the song.More than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.” Bee as queer people, we’re buried lifetime’s worth of shame so vivid and searg that oftentim ’s cripplg. Gay, lbian and bisexual youths are at far greater risk of sleep problems than their straight unterparts, acrdg to a new study published the journal LGBT Health.

1% of those who intified as gay, lbian or bisexual reported trouble fallg or stayg asleep the prev two weeks, pared to 13. 8% of qutng youths — those who answered “maybe” to beg gay, lbian or bisexual — reported problems wh gettg a full night’s rt. Existg rearch already pots to creased sleep issu among sexual mori, but Nagata said he believ this is the first time gay, lbian and bisexual youths have been the foc.

Separate rearch Nagata has worked on dit gay youths e screens an average of nearly four hours a day more than straight remends teenagers tablish nsistent sleep schl, make sure their sleepg environments are fortable and lim their exposure to electronic vic and social media before Kyle T. Participants/methods:We ed 2013–2015 Natnal Health Interview Survey data (46, 909 men; 56, 080 women) to exame sleep duratn and qualy among straight, gay/lbian, and bisexual US adults. For sleep qualy, gay men were more likely to have trouble fallg asleep, to e meditn to help fall/stay asleep, and to wake up not feelg well rted relative to both straight and bisexual men.

Gay/lbian women were more likely to have trouble stayg asleep and to e meditn to help fall/stay asleep relative to straight women. Conclns:Sexual mory women and gay men report poorer sleep qualy pared wh their straight unterparts. The send study21 ed activy diari kept over a 16-day perd by a nvenience sample of 53 Brish adults aged 18–49 years and showed that those who intified as homosexual awakened om sleep earlier than those who intified as heterosexual, and that homosexual men went to sleep later than heterosexual men, rultg shorter overall sleep duratn.

22 However, found that homo-sexual and bisexual adults had poorer sleep qualy than heterosexual adults, and women (regardls of sexual orientatn) had poorer sleep qualy than heterosexual men. 22The objective of this study is to ntue addrsg this gap the lerature by examg differenc sleep duratn and sleep qualy among gay/lbian, bisexual, and straight adults g data om a US natnal survey.

We hypothize that gay men will be ls likely to meet Natnal Sleep Foundatn (NSF) remendatns for sleep duratn. ” Rpons for men clud gay; straight, that is, not gay; bisexual; somethg else; and I don’t know the answer. For women, rpons clud lbian or gay; straight, that is, not lbian or gay; bisexual; somethg else; and I don’t know the answer.