Mental health differenc between German gay and bisexual men and populatn-based ntrols | BMC Psychiatry | Full Text

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• COMPARG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ON SEXUAL BEHAVR, NDOM E, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABL RELATED TO HIV/AIDS
• GAY MEANG HDI
• MENTAL HEALTH DIFFERENC BETWEEN GERMAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AND POPULATN-BASED NTROLS

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Not bee they are bad, or homophobic, or transphobic… but bee the reali are not their own lived experience, or bee workg alongsi the groups may be a newer experience for them. LGBTQ2S+ ALLY: Someone who nonts heterosexism, anti- LGBTQ2S+ bias, heterosexual and cisgenr privilege themselv and others; believ that heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia are social jtice issu. Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns.

? SummaryIn the ntext of LGBTQ+ inty, the word gay is typilly ed reference to a person who is sexually and/or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr.

In the ntext of sexual inty, the word gay is generally ed to mean “of, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr. We predicted that gay men, pared to bisexual men, would report more male sexual partners, more experience wh receptive sex, and more tolerant attus toward homosexualy. The only reliable difference between the gay and bisexual men wh rpect to number of partners was that gay men were more likely to have had a steady male partner or lover.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Interventns signed to rce the transmissn of HIV/AIDS need to nsir differenc gay and bisexual men's sexual behavr and attus toward homosexual behavr.

This means that beg transgenr (feelg like your assigned sex is very different om the genr you intify wh) isn’t the same thg as beg gay, lbian, or bisexual. Many asexual people feel romantilly attracted to people — so they may intify as asexual, and also as gay, lbian, bisexual, or straight. It’s been a long time that bisexual folks feel accepted to the gay and lbian muny, which is jt really unfortunate bee we’re lookg for muny, we’re lookg for sisterhood and brotherhood and kship.

In addn, I thk a lot of bisexual men experience a lot of doubts om gay men the sense that there’s an assumptn that you n’t be bisexual, you have to be straight or gay, you have to be one or the other.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

To nclu, bisexualy is not pathologil, and is not unhealthy, and ’s so important bee we’re still a bary world where ’s gay or straight. AbstractBackgroundInternatnal studi have revealed that gay and bisexual men prent more mental health problems than the general male populatn. MethodsMental health data on n = 1903 German gay and bisexual men and n = 958 men om a populatn-based sample were asssed g a shortened versn of the SCL-90-S.

Furthermore, a lear regrsn was nducted for the gay and bisexual sample: mental health was ed as the crern and mory strsors as predictors.

QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

) dite that pared to heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men have a higher prevalence of mental disorrs such as prsive, anxiety, substance e, and obssive-pulsive disorrs [1, 2, 3]. Moreover, prelimary data suggts that gay and bisexual men are at an creased risk for attentn-fic/hyperactivy disorr (ADHD), posttrmatic strs disorrs (PTSD), eatg and psychotic disorrs [4, 5, 6]’s mory strs theory [2, 7] claims that the relatnship between sexual orientatn and mental health is mediated by mory strsors that clu prejudice events, rejectn expectatns (also lled rejectn sensivy) [8], sexual orientatn ncealment, and ternalized homophobia (also lled ternalized homonegativy) [9].

While prejudice events are an aspect of enacted stigma (overt behavral exprsn of sexual stigma), rejectn sensivy and sexual orientatn ncealment are part of felt stigma (knowledge of society’s stance toward sexual mori cludg expectatns about the likelihood of stigma beg enacted a given suatn), and ternalized homonegativy is a form of ternalized stigma (the personal acceptance of sexual stigma as part of one’s own value system or self-ncept) several studi targetg primarily North Amerin and European gay and bisexual men and other sexual mory dividuals, discrimatn events, rejectn sensivy, and ternalized homonegativy have nsistently been found to predict mental health problems [5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16].

Gay and bisexual men [17, 18], was also associated wh fewer mental health problems gay and bisexual men a Californian populatn-based sample [19]. Also, disclosure (ually nsired as the oppose of ncealment) predicted more mental health problems German gay men when ntrollg for certa variabl (other mory strsors, pg, and social support), while this predictn was at an sufficient level of β <. The associatn between ncealment and fewer mental health problems may be lked to fdgs that dite greater victimizatn experienced among disclosed lbians, gay, and bisexual dividuals (LGB) [20, 21] and a strong rrelatn between disclosure and ternalized negativy (r =.

COMPARG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ON SEXUAL BEHAVR, NDOM E, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABL RELATED TO HIV/AIDS

Dpe the large number of ternatnal studi parg the mental health of gay and bisexual men vers heterosexual men [1, 2, 3], there are no studi g German sampl. The aim of this study was th to close this gap by parg the mental health of German gay and bisexual men wh that of a populatn-based male sample. The hypoth tted this study were: hypothis 1) gay and bisexual men will report more mental health symptoms than a male populatn sample, and hypothis 2) mory strs (victimizatn, rejectn sensivy, and ternalized homonegativy) will predict mental health problems gay and bisexual men.

GAY MEANG HDI

The thors did not ci to be the aforementned data for the prent study until after the recment of both and bisexual participantsGerman gay and bisexual men were reced onle 2014 via mailg lists of Philipps Universy Marburg (PUM), sexual mory associatns, news portals, and sexual mory social media. The followg participants were exclud om our analys: n = 472 did not plete the qutnnaire and n = 7 were unr 18 years of age or did not report a valid the exclns, our fal sample nsisted of N = 1424 self-intified gay and bisexual men wh a mean age of 38.

MENTAL HEALTH DIFFERENC BETWEEN GERMAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AND POPULATN-BASED NTROLS

Sce no study has been published to date on the prevalence of a gay, bisexual, and heterosexual inty the German populatn, we had to base this timate on U. The three ems rived om the personal homonegativy subsle of the Internalized Homonegativy Inventory [9] and were found to have a good Cronbach’s alpha of. HealthIn both the gay and bisexual men and the male populatn sample, mental health was asssed wh ems of the German Symptom-Checklist-90-Standard (SCL-90-S) [22], the new versn of the German SCL-90-R [25].

The ems on all other subsl were ed whout the gay and bisexual participants filled this adapted versn of the SCL-90-S, the populatn sample filled the origal SCL-90-S. We therefore found necsary to average ems 4 and 40 as well as ems 9 and 55 of the populatn sample orr to make the sr of the gay and bisexual and populatn sampl parable. We bed the groups wh no school gree and junr high school gree bee the sub-group of gay and bisexual men whout a school gree nsisted of only n = 3 and standard viatns of the mental health sle were lculated for both groups.

Cohen’s d was lculated for each signifint pairwise parison the addn, bivariate rrelatns between mory strs and mental health were puted for the gay and bisexual sample. Fally, a step-wise lear regrsn on mental health was puted for the gay and bisexual sample g socmographics and mory strsors (victimizatn, rejectn sensivy, and ternalized homonegativy) as predictors.