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Contents:

• PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?
• INSANE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SANE | GAY |AS AN ADJECTIVE SANEIS EXHIBG UNSOUNDNS OR DISORR OF MD; NOT SANE; MAD; RANGED MD; LIR; DISTRACTED .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO SANE
• FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
• ON GAY JEALOY
• SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)

PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS

Osborne told Time magaze Febary that he is gay and has known for years, but he kept a secret bee of untry mic's mostly nservative fan base.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. And about a third of all bisexual people and gay mal said they had a problem wh a substance e disorr the year before they filled out the survey, the report found.

CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?

However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men. Jeremy Kidd, a psychiatrist who has worked on studi to improve health out for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer populatns. “LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.

INSANE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SANE | GAY |AS AN ADJECTIVE SANEIS EXHIBG UNSOUNDNS OR DISORR OF MD; NOT SANE; MAD; RANGED MD; LIR; DISTRACTED .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO SANE

Bisexuals may face more challeng bee they may be experiencg mory strs a way that is different om people who intify as gay or lbian, he said. “For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said.

FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI

Burecrats the Eisenhower admistratn learned that Tattersall, a married man wh a history of mental illns, was what was then pejoratively labelled a “self-admted homosexual.

The vtigator wrote a report that Tattersall and his iend had ed “var homosexual terms, ” reunts Universy of South Florida profsor David Johnson his 2004 book on the persecutn of queer Amerins durg the Cold War, The Lavenr Sre. Francis and Felts had their first major breakthrough last Augt when they vised the Jean-Nickols Tretter Collectn Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi at the Universy of Mnota.

“Chasg all of the homosexuals out of one cy (even assumg such a thg were possible) would not solve the problem of homosexualy, any more than chasg all of the thiev out of one cy would solve the problem of dishonty, ” he explaed. “Karpman was not unual his efforts to treat and cure people of homoxualy and what he lled ‘trasnvtism, ’” says Rega Kunzel, who leads Prceton Universy’s program genr and sexualy and curated the Karpman papers while at the Universy of Mnota.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

“He’s ls of a dogmatic psychoanalyst than many people practicg at the time and he was a very strong cric of the crimalizatn of homosexualy. Elizabeths patients, received shock treatments and lobotomi for prsn or schizophrenia, which physicians thought was closely related to homosexualy.

ON GAY JEALOY

He drew up at least one “qutnnaire for specific typ of sexual viat, ” which asked patients whether they believed “there n be a lastg emotnal relatnship between two homosexuals” and how uld be mataed.

SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)

Kunzel scrib Karpman as “a kd of heterodox Frdian” who was “not moralizg at all about homosexualy or genr nonnformy, ” but did believe that people uld be “cured. Wed Overholser, the supertennt of the hospal om 1937 to 1962 and the print of Amerin Psychiatric Associatn for one year, was stmental argug that homosexuals should be separated om the ary and unrgo clil therapy.

Overholser was a chief archect of polici that lumped LGBTQ people to a bal of sexual generat (killers, rapists, voyrs, pedophil, homosexuals) durg the perd followg World War II. Navy, where he distguished between a “small group” of people stuck “the homosexual level” of psychologil velopment who would “rort to vlence to pel submissn to their mands, ” and another group of “homosexuals who engage their chosen sexual activy wh others of like tast. He acknowledged that “the emotnal reactn of the public agast homosexual activy” was “out of all proportn” wh homosexualy’s actual threat to personal rights and public orr, ” but then remend that gays be promptly discharged om the armed forc.

Rumored to be gay, Hoover pursued efforts to ot homosexuals om civil service, cludg by famoly requirg FBI supervisors to “unrle green pencil the nam of dividuals mentned any report, letter, memorandum, newspaper article or other munitn who are alleged to be sex viat.