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Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG
• SENR GAY MEN GATHERG FOR SOCIAL AND PERSONAL CONNECTN
• THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
• ATTUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF MEDIL STUNTS TOWARDS HEALTHRE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SENRS: IMPACT OF A CASE-BASED DISCSN WH FACILATORS FROM THE COMMUNY

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

A helpful troductn to this topic for stunts and psychologists is Guile 13 of the Guil for Psychologil Practice wh Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients: "Psychologists strive to regnize hort and age differenc among lbian, gay and bisexual dividuals.

"Internalized gay ageism, ” or the sense that one may feel nigrated or preciated bee of agg the ntext of a gay male inty, is associated wh negative mental out, acrdg to a study published. The Divisn for the Psychologil Study of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Issu rais awarens of psychologil issu the adult velopment and agg of LGBT dividuals.

SAGE is the untry's largt and olst anizatn dited to improvg the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) olr adults. The Natnal Rource Center on LGBTQ+ Agg is the untry's first and only technil assistance rource center foced on improvg the qualy of servic and supports offered to lbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgenr olr adults, their fai and regivers.

SENR GAY MEN GATHERG FOR SOCIAL AND PERSONAL CONNECTN

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.

THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.

They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

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In the realm of LGBTQ+ agg rearch, bisexual dividuals are rarely reprented as thoroughly as lbians and gay men; when bisexual dividuals are clud sampl, their experienc are often bed wh those of other non-heterosexual inti rather than examed their own right (Fredriksen-Goldsen, Jen, & Mura, 2019). This narrative ntrasts wh the blogil imperative nceptualizatn of sexualy that is often scribed among heterosexual, lbian, and gay dividuals.

ATTUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF MEDIL STUNTS TOWARDS HEALTHRE FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SENRS: IMPACT OF A CASE-BASED DISCSN WH FACILATORS FROM THE COMMUNY

This experience may be explaed by the fact that relatively few olr bisexual dividuals know another olr bisexual person (Jen, 2019) and bisexual olr adults are ls likely to have a person who shar their sexual inty their close social work pared to lbians and gay men (Erosheva et al., 2016). The dynamic nature of sexual experience, bed wh the cultural impacts of biphobia and begativy, may expla why bisexual adults are ls likely to report that their sexual inty is important to them or to view their sexualy a posive light pared to lbians and gay men (Pew Rearch Center, 2013). Beyond one’s personal experience of sexualy, prelimary evince related to sexual healthre dit that olr bisexual men (ag 50 and olr) are ls likely to receive HIV or sexually transmted fectn (STI) screengs pared to younger bisexual men (Schnarrs et al., 2016) or olr gay men (Fredriksen-Goldsen et al., 2013).

Addnally, very ltle is known related to the sexual health of olr bisexual women, although adult bisexual men and women report more sexually risky behavrs than do gay men or lbians, and olr bisexual men report ls ndom e and make up a disproportnate percentage of new HIV fectns pared to younger bisexual men (Schnarrs et al., 2016).