The lifetime and recent sexual risk behavrs of 156 Gay, Lbian, and bisexual youths, reced om Gay-foced anizatns New York Cy, were examed. The data dited seven reasons why the youths are at risk for HIV and other STDs: They iated sex durg early adolcence; their fir …
Contents:
- PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- SEXUAL RISK BEHAVRS OF GAY, LBIAN, AND BISEXUAL YOUTHS NEW YORK CY: PREVALENCE AND RRELAT
PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health. * behaviour of a gay *
Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC5442596NIHMSID: NIHMS860386AbstractThe Bear muny exists as a subculture reactn to the larger gay muny.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
While qualative data document such self-intifiers as mascule-actg gay men who weigh more and have more body hair, there has to date been no quantative analysis of this group’s characteristics. In rponse, we nducted two large-sle studi of gay men intifyg as Bears (n = 469) to survey their self-reported physil, behavral, and psychologil tras.
SEXUAL RISK BEHAVRS OF GAY, LBIAN, AND BISEXUAL YOUTHS NEW YORK CY: PREVALENCE AND RRELAT
Keywords: Bears, Gay Culture, Gay and Bisexual Men, Self-teem, Masculy, ObyINTRODUCTIONThe gay muny is ultimately a heterogeneo one wh many subgroups and subcultur—one of the monali among them beg the sire to have same-sex enunters. They nsir “real” masculy to clu havg fort wh other men’s bodi and chew the more normative gay male body-mol (i. Bee there is a arth of general rearch regardg this muny, and no studi to date that e quantative methods, we cid to explore this muny quantatively—g an Inter-nvenience sample, followed by a purposive suggted, the Bear culture exhibs and valu a greater sense of domant (but not necsarily domeerg) “thentic masculy” parison to other subcultur wh the gay muny (e.