Black Gay Men’s Network of Ontar – Empowerment, Mentorship, Activism and Love

Contents:

• WHAT IS THE GAY SOCIAL NETWORK?
• BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR
• BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR
• BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR
• BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR
• BLACK GAY MEN'S NETWORK OF ONTAR
• YOUNG BLACK GAY MEN HAVE VASTLY HIGHER HIV RAT YET FEWER PARTNERS AND MORE EQUENT TTG
• EBANMAN: THE FIRST SOCIAL NETWORK AND APP TO SUPPORT BLACK PROFSNAL GAY MEN

WHAT IS THE GAY SOCIAL NETWORK?

Ain Amerin Office of Gay Concerns.

A aln of Black gay pri anizers formed to promote a multatnal work of LGBTQ+ Pris and muny-based anizatns. Chigo Black Gay Men’s Cc.

Gay Profsnal Men of Color (GPMC).

BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR

An anizatn that aims to provi rpectful and posive spac, where gay, bisexual, trans men, and qutng (“GBTQ”) profsnal men of lor n e together wh like-md dividuals.

Although the group enpass many ethnic and spirual backgrounds, the choir provis a special mistry to black lbians and gays. They produce two full ncerts a year and equently appear as guts at muny functns om church servic to Gay Pri ralli. The missn of NAESM is to provi natnal and lol learship to addrs the myriad of health and wellns issu nonted by Black gay men through advocy, servic, and tn.

Its programs help crease the racial diversy wh the gay rights movement. RedBone Prs publish work celebratg the cultur of black lbians and gay men, and work that further promot unrstandg between black gays and lbians and the black mastream. All the top LGBTQ+ social works on the web (not to be nfed wh the bt gay blogs, which have ls teractn), cludg niche social muni (like bears, twks, and cubs) as well as LGBTQ+ works anized by language, natnaly, or special tert.

BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR

This list of LGBTQ+ onle muni and social works clus domas relatg specifilly to the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muni. While Facebook is currently the world's largt and most popular social workg platform (havg supplanted prev champns such as MySpace and Friendster), there are plenty of smaller groups that ter to the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muni. What are the bt onle gay works?

If you're lookg for more LGBTQ+ ntent, make sure to check out the most gay iendly ci Ameri and the list of famo transgenr mkhmarketg / via Flickr1234Se wh imag of betiful men.

BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR

We were ntacted today by the founr of the soon to lnch social work for gay men It lead to take a look around the gay male onle social workg space and wre the followg overview of some of the current market lears. From the proudly profsnal to the happily hedonistic, there may be somethg on this list for everyone – or at least everyone who’s a gay man.

As you n see by the followg short profil, the s targetg a mographic wh two tras mon (gay men) are all very different. Jt as there’s a wi diversy of gay men the world, there may well be ample room for a variety of gay male social workg s – prumg they are able to build sufficient cril mass for moizatn and fancial viabily. I won’t pretend to speak for gay men and I’m sure there are some s I’m missg, but the appear to be the most talked about gay male social workg s onle.

BLACK GAY MEN’S NETWORK OF ONTAR

Jake lls self the world’s largt gay profsnal muny. “Fally, gay personals that treat you like a person, ” the se says. BigJock has a long way to go before n pete wh the heavyweights above, but anythg is possible and there are clearly niche approach unrway throughout the gay male social workg market.

The GSN is an anizatn servg the gay and lbian muny our area.

We enurage gays and lbians new to Southwt Florida to utilize our anizatn as a means of makg new ntacts and meetg new iends. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up-to-date wh GSN activi as well as other ems of tert to the gay muny. The Black Gay Men’s Network of Ontar is a centralized hub for same-genr-lovg men of Ain, Ain diaspora, Ao-Lato, Caribbean and Black inti, operatg om Toronto as an pennt and tonomo enty.

BLACK GAY MEN'S NETWORK OF ONTAR

Highlightg our own Black gay talent. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC4878705NIHMSID: NIHMS732782AbstractThis paper reports a study of the functn and posn of social support works among diverse lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) men and women (n = 396) parison to their heterosexual peers (n = 128).

Our fdgs show that gay and bisexual men may rely on “chosen fai” wh LGBT muni more so than lbian and bisexual women.

G., borrowg large sums of money), heterosexual men and women along wh lbian and bisexual women relied primarily on their fai, but gay and bisexual men relied primarily on other LGB dividuals. Racial/ethnic mory LGBs relied on LGB siar others at the same rate at Whe LGBs but, notably, racial/ethnic mory LGBs reported receivg fewer dimensns of prevalence of negative mental and physil health out is signifintly higher among lbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs) than their heterosexual peers (Kg, Semlyen, Tai, Killaspy, Osborn, Popely, & Nazareth, 2008; Lick, Durso, & Johnson, 2013). Mory strs theory further poss that orr to pe wh the unique forms of mory strs, LGB dividuals engage muny-level pg procs (Meyer, 2003), for example, accsg an LGB muny center for unselg or support groups pg wh antigay vlence.

YOUNG BLACK GAY MEN HAVE VASTLY HIGHER HIV RAT YET FEWER PARTNERS AND MORE EQUENT TTG

Although, livg a “gay neighborhood” do dite a greater feelg of nnectedns to a muny of siar others (Mills et al., 2001), the abily to bee tegrated to the ually affluent neighborhoods is limed by fancial rourc (Barrett & Pollack, 2005). Addnally, a recent analysis of mographic shifts the US populatn dit that neighborhoods are beg ls segregated by sexual orientatn, as same-sex upl wh children (which tend to be more often female then male) may be movg out of tradnally urban gay neighborhoods (Sprg, 2013).

Havg siar others available for support, advice, and as role mols n be helpful to young people negotiatg the procs of g out, which is sential to rcg ternalized homophobia and creatg a posive trajectory of LGB inty velopment (Elizur & Mtzer, 2001; Jordon & Deluty, 1998). Furthermore, for sexual mory youth, social support om peers ( the form of Gay-Straight Allianc), parents, and other adults is sential for enhancg health, well-beg, and tnal out— out that are negatively impacted by mory strs experienced by sexual mory youth (Detrie & Lease, 2007; Hatzenbuehler, Birkett, Van Wagenen, & Meyer, 2014; Ryan et al., 2009; Toomy, Ryan, Diaz, & Rsell, 2011). After adjtg for the nfound nature of socenomic stat and race/ethnicy, ltle to no differenc rema the social support works of Whe and racial/ethnic mory dividuals the general populatn (Griff et al., 2006), as well as specifilly among HIV-posive gay and bisexual men (e.

G., Lemelle & Battle, 2004) may make harr for gay and bisexual Lato and Black men to be out about their sexual orientatn and to garner support om fay and same-race peers than is for Whe LGBs and racial/ethnic mory lbian and bisexual women (e. For example, rearch has portrayed LGB muni, anizatns, and neighborhoods most urban centers as predomantly Whe and terg to the needs of gay men (Bnie & Skeggs, 2004; Han, 2007; Ward, 2008). Participants were eligible if they were 18-59 years-old, NYC rints for two years or more who uld munite English and self-intified as: a) lbian, gay, or bisexual or straight/heterosexual; b) male or female and were assigned the same sex at birth; and c) Whe, Black or Lato (participants may have ed other inty terms, such as queer or Hispanic, referrg to the social groups).

EBANMAN: THE FIRST SOCIAL NETWORK AND APP TO SUPPORT BLACK PROFSNAL GAY MEN

Recment efforts were succsful at reachg dividuals who rid diverse NYC neighborhoods and avoidg ncentratn particular “gay neighborhoods” that is often characteristic of samplg of LGB populatns. MeasurThe study clud an stment om Fisher (1977) adapted by Mart and Dean (1987) for e gay/bisexual men to asss the posn of social support works [bld].

When need of major support, Whe straight men and women and all lbians and bisexual women relied maly on fay members, but gay and bisexual men relied primarily on other people, such as iends and -workers, when they need major support. It is notable that the patterns did not differ by race/ethnicy; siar patterns of reliance on others for major support were observed for Whe, Black, and Lato gay and bisexual men.