Stigma and Discrimatn Affects Gay and Bisexual Men's Health | CDC

Contents:

• GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL
• GAY UPLE FIL PLAT AGAST NEW YORK CY OVER NYG IVF VERAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
• EDORIAL: RELIG EEDOM IS NO EXCE FOR DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY UPL
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
• A UPLE TRYG TO RENT AN AIRBNB TEXAS WERE TURNED AWAY AFTER THE HOST LEARNED THEY WERE GAY. IT'S THE SHORT-TERM-RENTAL GIANT'S LATT PROBLEM WH DISCRIMATN.

GAY UPLE WS SE AGAST FLORIST AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL

Homophobia, stigma (negative and ually unfair beliefs), and discrimatn (unfairly treatg a person or group of people) agast gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men still exist the Uned Stat and n negatively affect the health and well-beg of this muny. The negative beliefs and actns n affect the physil and mental health of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men, whether they seek and are able to get health servic, and the qualy of the servic they may receive.

Such barriers to health mt be addrsed at different levels of society, such as health re settgs, work plac, and schools to improve the health of gay and bisexual men throughout their liv. A study published 2009 pared gay, lbian, and bisexual young adults who experienced strong rejectn om their fai wh their peers who had more supportive fai.

Gay and bisexual men and their fay and iends n take steps to lsen the effects of homophobia, stigma, and discrimatn and protect their physil and mental health. Many anizatns and onle rmatn rourc exist to help parents learn more about how they n support their gay and bisexual teen, other fay members, and their teens’ iends.

GAY UPLE FIL PLAT AGAST NEW YORK CY OVER NYG IVF VERAGE

Intify “safe spac, ” such as unselors’ offic, signated classrooms, or stunt anizatns, where gay and bisexual youth n get support om admistrator, teacher, or other school staff.

THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL

Enurage stunt-led and stunt-anized school clubs that promote a safe, welg, and acceptg school environment (such as gay-straight allianc, which are school clubs open to youth of all sexual orientatns). Make sure that health class or tnal materials clu HIV and STD rmatn that is relevant to gay and bisexual youth too, makg sure that the rmatn clive words or terms. Make easier for stunts to have accs to muny-based provirs who have experience providg health servic, cludg HIV/STD ttg and unselg, and social and psychologil servic to gay and bisexual youth.

A systematic review of parental fluenc on the health and well-beg of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth: Time for a new public health rearch and practice agenda. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn se — which the Supreme Court sid 7-2 wh a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple — the web signer's argument was at first merely hypothetil, that she didn't actually have any would-be ctomers who are gay.

Bee she had not yet been nonted wh a gay uple requtg her servic — or broken the anti-discrimatn law — the state sought to dismiss her se.

EDORIAL: RELIG EEDOM IS NO EXCE FOR DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY UPL

Unfortunately for Smh, to refe service to members of the public bee they are gay is illegal: Colorado bans bs, shops and other plac of public acmodatn om discrimatg on the basis of sexual orientatn. If turns out that 303 Creative do not have a ee speech right to refe service to same-sex upl, publishg a statement on s webse that will not provi weddg servic to gay and lbian upl uld be characterized as discrimatory nduct that triggers no ee speech the same time, nduct may exprs a msage and therefore unt as nstutnally protected “speech.

If the urt fds for 303 Creative, this right to discrimate agast gay and lbian people won’t be limed to those whose relign nmns same-sex marriage.

Potentially, any such pany hostile to gays or lbians uld argue that takg their picture or prtg an vatn or actg as their lawyer or agent or unselor would exprs approval of homosexualy. "The adjuditory bodi that nsired this se did not act wh relig anim when they led that the florist and her rporatn vlated the Washgton Law Agast Discrimatn by clg to sell weddg flowers to a gay uple, and they did not act wh relig anim when they led that such discrimatn is not privileged or exced by the Uned Stat Constutn or the Washgton Constutn, " the urt wrote.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

A gay uple filed a class-actn charge of discrimatn agast New York Cy on Tuday allegg that the cy’s surance policy is discrimatory bee do not ver vro fertilizatn, or IVF, for gay male Brisk and Nicholas Maggipto said they started talkg about havg a fay nearly a ago, leadg up to their engagement December 2014.

Then they planned to work wh an agency to hire a surrogate who would rry the baby to Brisk and Nicholas MeriansBut those plans were terpted 2017, after Brisk took a job as an assistant district attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s Office Manhattan, and the uple said they learned that the cy’s surance policy don’t provi IVF benefs for gay men. -based firm Gupta Wsler PLLC who is reprentg the uple, said this is the first time, that he’s aware of, that a charge like this has been filed wh the EEOC, though same-sex upl have long been fightg for surance verage of IVF and other fertily said ’s “odd” that the cy’s policy mak an acmodatn for lbian women, by allowg them to unrgo IUI for a year, but don’t make an acmodatn for gay men. “If New York Cy cid that they wouldn’t provi heart meditn, or other typ of certa health servic for gay men, I thk would be very obv that that would be discrimatory.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

”By not providg verage for gay men, “the Cy’s policy breath life to the outdated stereotype that gay men are not f to be parents, ” the charge stated. (The state sists that would not pel Smh to actually sign a weddg webse but merely to sell a preexistg template to all ctomers; Gorsuch simply dismissed this claim, while simultaneoly cricizg the state for s ostensible eagerns to punish Smh and other anti-gay bs owners. Smh, he nclud, was not discrimatg agast gay people bee of their sexual orientatn; she was refg to exprs a msage about sexual orientatn that she do not believe.

” He exprsed approval for LGBTQ+ nondiscrimatn laws as a general matter, wrg that stat may “protect gay persons” jt like any other class “ acquirg whatever products and servic they choose on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public. “By issug this new license to discrimate a se brought by a pany that seeks to ny same-sex upl the full and equal enjoyment of s servic, ” she wrote, “the immediate, symbolic effect of the cisn is to mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. Sotomayor also speculated that every anti-gay bs owner will now attempt to rest their discrimatn as “exprsn” to secure a First Amendment right to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people.

A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY

She ced var exampl of recent anti-gay discrimatn, cludg a funeral home that refed to cremate and hold a memorial service for a gay man. The cisn has already been hailed by the polil right as a historic w for ee speech and cried by the left as an unthkable setback for gay rights. Kg’s words even more relevant is that isn’t jt gay upl who might be turned away by a bs owner who believ their marriage is a “false” one: anyone n ce ee speech as an exce to avoid givg Black people, women, the elrly, or even a child of Indian immigrants like me the same rights and accs to the marketplace that Whe cisgenr heterosexual male Amerins have.

For while those power seek to discrimate agast gay Amerins for beg gay, Ain Amerins for beg Black, Asian Amerins for beg Asian and Jewish Amerins for beg Jewish, the tth we nnot lose sight of is that we are all Amerins.

A UPLE TRYG TO RENT AN AIRBNB TEXAS WERE TURNED AWAY AFTER THE HOST LEARNED THEY WERE GAY. IT'S THE SHORT-TERM-RENTAL GIANT'S LATT PROBLEM WH DISCRIMATN.

The Uned Stat has wnsed a remarkable shift LGBTQ rights and visibily the 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg — and jt the last few years, LGBTQ people have won the right to marry, have h a rerd high reprentatn on televisn and have seen the first openly gay major printial ndidate beg his mpaign. In 1953, a publisher associated wh the Los Angel chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first “homophile” groups, released somethg unique for s time: ONE: The Homosexual Magaze.