In the Huffgton Post edn of March 2nd 2017, Michael Hobb has wrten an extensive article about the abundant lonels of the current gay liftyle. He scrib the psychiatric problems to be found the gay muny, and which do not dimish spe of so-lled social progrs enforced by prsure groups. A mt-read article…
Contents:
- “THE EPIMIC OF GAY LONELS”
- EXGAY CALLG
- THE EPIMIC OF GAY LONELS
- GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
“THE EPIMIC OF GAY LONELS”
“The Epimic of Gay Lonels”. “Dpe all the talk of our “chosen fai,” gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women. In a survey of…. * the epidemic of gay loneliness *
The Epimic ofGay Lonels. Only a few of the nam of the gay men this article are real. Jeremy[1] is not my only gay iend who’s stgglg.
EXGAY CALLG
* the epidemic of gay loneliness *
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. My parents still claim that they had no ia 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.
” 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.
THE EPIMIC OF GAY LONELS
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. “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.
GAY, MIDDLE-AGED, AND LONELY AS HELL
“Gay-married, huh?