This report scrib the clil treatment of a sample of four gay men sufferg om Post-Trmatic Strs Disorr (PTSD) attributed to their repeated experienc wh peer ridicule and ostracism throughout childhood and adolcence, ed by their genr variant appearance and behavr. All of …
Contents:
- LET’S SET THE RERD STRAIGHT—ABE DON’T MAKE YOU GAY
- THE V-SPOT: AM I GAY/QUEER BEE OF SEXUAL TRMA?
- 3 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN & TRMA
- TREATMENT OF GAY MEN FOR POST-TRMATIC STRS DISORR RULTG OM SOCIAL OSTRACISM AND RIDICULE: GNIVE BEHAVR THERAPY AND EYE MOVEMENT SENSIZATN AND REPROCSG APPROACH
LET’S SET THE RERD STRAIGHT—ABE DON’T MAKE YOU GAY
This article vers myths about gay men and trma that are gettg the way of mental health and seekg unsellg or therapy Canada. * trauma make you gay *
For example, we do know that children who are perceived as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred are more at risk for beg sexually abed so when you study how many women who intify as a lbian have been sexually abed, the numbers may be higher than the general public. Take a look at this article:The problem wh the belief that child sexual asslt homosexualy/bisexualy.
Born male, Smh is also a child of divorce, and further reports experiencg "vlent homophobic abe" throughout childhood and adolcence, as well as "homophobia and bullyg the gay muny.
THE V-SPOT: AM I GAY/QUEER BEE OF SEXUAL TRMA?
"I am both terrified and trated to no end that this myth—that abe n 'make you gay'—is still very much alive and well. I am both terrified and trated to no end that this myth—that abe n “make you gay”—is still very much alive and well.
Y, bad experienc n make leery of people who are the same genr, race, and age as our aber, but they do not make gay, bisexual, or transgenr. You see, the rrelatn between beg a survivor of abe and queer inty is that beg of margalized inty general mak you more likely to be targeted by predatory dividuals; nnot however make you change om straight to gay, or om cisgenr to transgenr.
I’m my late teens and have intified as gay/queer for the last few years. I hate the ia that I’m gay bee I was raped, but I don’t know if my intifyg as gay stead of bisexual or pansexual is bee of that. I also sometim wonr if ’s jt my own ternalized homophobia (om growg up a pretty nservative fay) and secretly wishg that I was straight.
3 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN & TRMA
When to sexual trma, however, often we are socially prompted to wonr if gayns has been ed by the abe.
Meang, if I, a woman, was abed by a woman I might be prompted to wonr if I am now gay bee of that experience.
TREATMENT OF GAY MEN FOR POST-TRMATIC STRS DISORR RULTG OM SOCIAL OSTRACISM AND RIDICULE: GNIVE BEHAVR THERAPY AND EYE MOVEMENT SENSIZATN AND REPROCSG APPROACH
And also, if I, a woman, was abed by a man, I might STILL be prompted to wonr if I am now gay bee of that experience. So, no matter my aber, sexual trma has been lked to “g gayns. Bee gayns is posned as an “other, ” “damaged” inty rather than one that is naturally occurrg jt like straightns is naturally occurrg.
Can Childhood Trma lead to Homosexualy? I intify as pletely gay but havg to al wh long standg issu and problems om my trmatic childhood wh my mother I was told that me beg a homosexual uld be part of how I alt wh the problems and issu I received om growg up.