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Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women. GAY.

People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr have a variety of health needs. People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) are members of every muny.

But what Pachankis and his lleagu began to notice their work was that gay and bisexual men reported feelg much of their strs g om their peers, or what a new study led by Pachankis lls tra-mory strs.

THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS

And is the most signifint of s kd to exame muny strsors among gay and bisexual fdgs reveal what many the muny know all too well: that gay and bisexual men n be pretty harsh wh one another and wh ourselv tryg to measure up. Spoke to Pachankis about the leadg strsors that origate wh the muny, their effects on mental and physil health, and how gay and bisexual men might better support one another and venture to move forward were the major prsur you found affectg the mental health of gay and bisexual men?

One was strs related to perceivg that the gay muny is overly foced on sex at the expense of long-term relatnships or iendships.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

The send was that the gay muny is overly foced on stat-related ncerns—thgs like masculy, attractivens, and wealth.

The third was related to perceptns that the gay muny is overly petive, that upholds this kd of sha culture and general social petn. The fourth was that the gay muny is exclnary of diversy, cludg racial-ethnic diversy and age diversy, and discrimatory towards gay men wh rearch fds that each of the class of strsors is associated wh prsn and anxiety. But some likely have a distct impact pendg on where a gay or bisexual man falls along the stat-based peckg orr that a lot of people talked about perceivg as a e of strs.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

To the extent that we know ourselv through the reflectn of others, what we fd is that gay and bisexual men might be particularly likely to size themselv up g the same standards of attractivens and succs and masculy that they e to size up their potential sex partners, which n be particularly groups did you fd were disproportnately affected? It pends on the class of strsor, but broadly speakg, men of lor were more likely to perceive what we ll gay muny strs.

We also found that younger men pared to olr men were more strsed, and that bisexual men were ls likely to experience this type of gay muny strs. Obvly, the greatt sourc of HIV risk are stctural disadvantag, particular the stctural forms of homophobia and racism that affect gay and bisexual men of lor, disproportnately.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

To my knowledge, no prev studi had really homed on the strs that gay and bisexual men might experience wh each other as predictors of HIV found a rrelatn where gay and bisexual men who are particularly strsed by the gay muny’s foc on sex, stat, and petn or who were likely to perceive the gay muny as exclnary of diversy were more likely to engage sex whout ndoms or PrEP their daily liv.

It beme clear my clil work that gay and bisexual men ce strsors om wh the gay muny.