An extensive list of APA and other rourc to support the agg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.
Contents:
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- ANTHONY GAY’S S SOLARY NFEMENT LED TO SELF-MUTILATN. NOW A PROPOSED LAW TO LIM PRISONER ISOLATN ILLOIS IS NAMED HIS HONOR.
- STRANGER THGS AND THE STGGLE OF GAY ISOLATN
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
The Florida Don't Say Gay law shows the opposg velopments ncerng LGBTQ tn U.S. schools. While some stat have been tablishg legal foundatns for LGBTQ curriculums recently, Florida is gog the oppose directn and more stat are expected to follow s example. * gay isolation *
Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory. At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player. I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.
ANTHONY GAY’S S SOLARY NFEMENT LED TO SELF-MUTILATN. NOW A PROPOSED LAW TO LIM PRISONER ISOLATN ILLOIS IS NAMED HIS HONOR.
Anthony Gay, who lls solary nfement ‘wrong, spible and horrible’, hop bill passed by lower hoe will bee law * gay isolation *
She also suggted validatg and regnizg the fluence that homophobia and prejudice have on one’s inty velopment. “Suicidal and Help-Seekg Behavrs Among Youth an Onle Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Qutng Social Network.
It Gets Better – This is a nonprof anizatn whose “…missn is to uplift, empower and nnect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer youth around the globe. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history.
As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.
STRANGER THGS AND THE STGGLE OF GAY ISOLATN
Still, even as we celebrate the sle and speed of this change, the rat of prsn, lonels and substance abe the gay muny rema stuck the same place they’ve been for s. Gay people are now, pendg on the study, between 2 and 10 tim more likely than straight people to take their own liv. In a survey of gay men who recently arrived New York Cy, three-quarters suffered om anxiety or prsn, abed dgs or alhol or were havg risky sex—or some batn of the three.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG
Dpe all the talk of our “chosen fai, ” gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women. “Marriage equaly and the chang legal stat were an improvement for some gay men, ” says Christopher Stults, a rearcher at New York Universy who studi the differenc mental health between gay and straight men.
In the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been legal sce 2001, gay men rema three tim more likely to suffer om a mood disorr than straight men, and 10 tim more likely to engage “suicidal self-harm.