Are Gay Men Happier Than Straight Men? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
• WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
• ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?
• STUDY PROV WHAT WE KNEW ALL ALONG: GAY STUNTS ARE SMARTER
• BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX
• GEN LKED TO BEG GAY MAY HELP STRAIGHT PEOPLE GET MORE SEX
• THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
• ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
• ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?

ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

”A new study makg wav among LGBTQ-foced amics lends empiril crence to the inic Act Up -founr’s priful claims — not to the supposed sweepg superry of gay men, rather to the more narrow assertn that this group is remarkably cled to excel the paper, which was published the Amerin Soclogil Review on Feb.

WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS

Courty Amy LevJoel Mtleman, a Universy of Notre Dame soclogist and the paper’s sole thor, found that on an array of amic measur, gay mal outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups. “This article is focg a lens on what we do to all kids, ” Lisa Diamond, a psychology profsor at the Universy of Utah, said of the societal prsur that appear to impe lbians school even as the strsors possibly unnerve gay mal to pensatg for homophobia through amic strivg.

ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

The three surveys of Amerin adults nsistently dited that gay men are far more likely than straight men to have graduated om high school or llege, wh jt over half of gay men havg earned a llege gree, pared wh about 35 percent of straight men.

STUDY PROV WHAT WE KNEW ALL ALONG: GAY STUNTS ARE SMARTER

What’s more, gay men’s llege graduatn rate dramatilly bts even that of straight women, about one-third of whom have a bachelor’s longudal survey showed that pared wh their straight male peers, gay mal earned higher GPAs high school and llege, enrolled harr class, took school more serly, had more amilly md iends and had a much lower rate of ever droppg out for a month or more. But as nstrictns on women’s potential have eased sce the 1960s, straight women’s llege graduatn rate has risen to the pot of statistil pary wh lbians among today’s young Nancy Drew effect Searchg for the drivers of the differenc school performance between straight and gay stunts, Mtleman ed a mache-learng algorhm to intify rponse patterns to survey qutns that predicted beg male vers female among members of the longudal hort.

BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX

“Girls who prent as mascule are seen as troublemakers, are seen as spic some way, ” Mtleman ‘Bt Ltle Boy the World’ phenomenon An addnal factor that Mtleman argued driv the average gay boy to surpass even the average straight girl amilly is what’s known queer psychology as the “Bt Ltle Boy the World” phenomenon. This refers to the tle of the 1973 memoir by former Democratic Natnal Commtee treasurer Andrew Tobias, which he chronicled his youthful csa to appease his ternalized homophobia through admissn to Harvard Universy and other feats of superlative a 2013 paper published Basic and Applied Social Psychology, psychologist Mark Hatzenbuehler, now of Harvard Universy, and Pachankis found evince suggtg that gay male llege stunts ed sought to pensate for anti-gay stigma by rivg their self-worth part through amic mastery and other forms of petn. This psychologil paradigm also pris the bedrock of “The Velvet Rage, ” psychologist Alan Downs’ go-to bible for queer men, published 2005, on “overg the pa of growg up gay a straight man’s world.

”An analysis by the Brookgs Instutn’s Haton Project published January found that gay male upl earn $30, 000 more annually than lbian Meyer, a rearcher at UCLA’s Williams Instute, exprsed trigue over the story Mtleman’s paper tells of many gay men apparently overg nsirable odds. Meyer poted to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn’s Youth Risk Behavr Surveillance reports that have chronicled the myriad strsors lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people weather school and the lany of leter impacts, cludg prsn and, Mtleman found that on the whole, lbian, gay and bisexual young people reported feelg more unsafe school and suffered higher levels of discrimatn and what’s known as mory strs than their straight peers. Suggtg that feverish amic strivg search of validatn n e at a steep st to mental and physil health, Mtanski poted to his own rearch fdgs that gay men have disproportnately high levels of chronic flammatn.

Notg what an overwhelmgly unsafe place school still is for many queer kids, Wilson further utned the public not to nclu, for example, “that a poor Black gay boy livg Montgomery or Mobile, Alabama, feme-prentg and genr-nonnformg, is actually succeedg high school right now. Ethnographi of tradnal societi suggt that exclively homosexual behavur was probably rare the anctral environment, so the Hypothis would predict that more telligent dividuals are more likely to intify themselv as homosexual and engage homosexual behavur.

GEN LKED TO BEG GAY MAY HELP STRAIGHT PEOPLE GET MORE SEX

When he’s not havg his blog ncelled for sayg black women are unattractive, he’s argug that some natns jt aren’t smart enough to be which, his latt work, sayg that gay people are smarter on average, is probably his most polilly rrect paper years, strange as that may three large populatn surveys (USA’s AddHealth and GSS, UK’s NCDS), Kanazawa found a small posive rrelatn between timated IQ and self-reported homosexual behavur or I’m not sure what to make of this. Meangays1Kanazawa terprets all this terms of the Savanna hypothis, sentially the ia that telligence allows to transcend our evolutnary programmg (acrdg to which we ought to all be straight, amongst many other thgs) –.

Cult for dividuals to prefer or value somethg that they nnot tly prehend…However, uld be that Ameri and the UK today, smarter people tend to end up the kd of social circl where beg gay is (for whatever reason) more ma problem wh this is that the effects are very small. The efficients reprent the change homosexualy per ‘pot’ change the other variable, but IQ vari more than polil orientatn, bee polil attus were measured on a 5 pot sle AddHealth but IQ has a mean of 100 pots.

THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

Wrten by Joel Mtleman, a soclogist at the Universy of Notre Dame, the paper explor how growg up gay impacts amic short, unvered that on a wi array of amic measur, on average, gay men outperform virtually everyone else.

ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?

One of the reasons for this uld be that gay mal, who are often the most vulnerable and picked upon groups school, pensate for homophobia by excellg fact that gay men outperform others school is particularly tertg right now bee over the last several years, women overall have excelled their amic pursus while men have been stagnant or fallen behd.

This study reports that the cle amic standg is only among straight men, not gay three surveys ed by Mtlemen his study showed that:- Gay men are far more likely than straight on to graduate om high school and llege. When he backed answer patterns agast standard genr intifiers, he found that the answers provid by gay men of all rac were more siar to those of straight whe suggts that sexual orientatn alone don’t drive amic performance.

It seems more likely that sexual orientatn upled wh genr intifitn may be the actual reason why gay male stunts do so well genr experts, cludg Mtleman, believe that the anti-tellectual bias of many straight boys and men is driven large part by the sire to assert their masculy by distancg themselv om the smart female the ntrary, gay boys and men, based on the study, seem to be willg — or even eager — to go agast genr norms — and actually rebel agast them — when to amics. In other words, ’s the “I’ll show you” of negative ramifitns of outperformg may seem like a great way for young gay men to al wh their strs and e out ahead of the people who pick on them and make them feel “ls than”.

ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?

Your sire to prove your classmat wrong by earng an MBA uld end up dog more harm to you than them, mentally, physilly and to learn more about how gay llege stunts n al wh strs and mental health issu?