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Contents:
- ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
- I’M FAT AND GAY. HERE’S WHAT I’VE LEARNED.
- HOMOBY: HOW ONE OVERWEIGHT, GAY, MIDDLE-AGED MAN LEARNED TO BE FORTABLE HIS SK
- BEG OVERWEIGHT THE GAY COMMUNY: WHY IT’S NOT A BAD THG
- TABLE 16.1 DISTRIBUTNS OF BMI TEGORI AMONG GAY MAL AND STRAIGHT MAL, 20–49 YEARS OF AGE BY EACH OF THREE DIMENSNS OF SEXUALY: 2017–2019 NATNAL SURVEY OF FAY GROWTH (SURVEY ADJTED G NSFG RPONNT SAMPLG WEIGHTS)
- SEXUAL, BEHAVRAL, AND QUALY OF LIFE CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTHY WEIGHT, OVERWEIGHT, AND OBE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: FDGS OM A PROSPECTIVE HORT STUDY
- GAY AND TRANSGENR CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO BE OBE, STUDY FDS
ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
LGBTQ, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng, as the acronym suggts, is a large mory group the Uned Stat that * gay and overweight *
LGBTQ, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng, as the acronym suggts, is a large mory group the Uned Stat that also clus groups such as transexual, queer, tersex, asexual, and pansexual. As mentned above, stigma, discrimatn, and ternal homophobia n crease risk of disorred eatg, but studi have also shown that dividuals who have a sense of “nnectedns to the gay muny” have a protective effect agast the velopment of eatg disorrs.
I’M FAT AND GAY. HERE’S WHAT I’VE LEARNED.
Dpe an expansive lerature the last few s on the quali and characteristics of gay and straight men, rearch explorg the prevalence of oby and overweight the gay male populatn is limed, pecially parg them to the straight... * gay and overweight *
It is important to regnize the effects of shame, stigma, and ternalized homophobia on the LGBT muny, and how the affects n adversely affect health out the form of disorred eatg and/or unhealthy BMI.
HOMOBY: HOW ONE OVERWEIGHT, GAY, MIDDLE-AGED MAN LEARNED TO BE FORTABLE HIS SK
* gay and overweight *
There are limed populatn-based studi the existg lerature on LGB and body weight stat, wh much of what is currently known studied small or regnal sampl and/or nvenience samplg [16, 17, 18, 19] high prevalence of overweightns and oby among certa sexual mory populatns is thought to be related to prejudice, homophobia, and amplified levels of strs that sexual and genr mori face [20].
BEG OVERWEIGHT THE GAY COMMUNY: WHY IT’S NOT A BAD THG
<i>Background</i>. Wh the growg regnn of overweight and oby as signifint, ternatnal public health ncerns, the body of rearch vtigatg the relatnship between body mass x (BMI), sexual health, and sexual functng sexual mory men is still srce. <i>Objective</i>. The purpose of this study is to asss sexual health termants (sexual behavr and sexual functng) relatn to normal weight, overweight, and oby among gay and bisexual men. <i>Methods and Materials</i>. The survey clud four tegori of qutns/measurements, enpassg socmographic rmatn, protected/unprotected sexual behavrs, sexual functng, and BMI. The survey was nducted onle, and recment nsisted of onle notifitns (emails and electronic msag) and advertisements sent to LGBT muny anizatns, mailg lists, and social works. <i>Rults</i>. The study sample was posed of 741 gay and bisexual men, rangg age om 21 to 75 years (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 43.30, SD<sub>age</sub> = 11.37); 62.5% of men self-intified as gay and 37.5% as bisexual. Prevalence of normal weight was 50.3%, of overweight, 33.3%, and of oby, 16.4%. Participants wh overweight and oby showed a lower equency of anal receptive sex whout ndoms when spared to participants wh normal weight. Hierarchil multiple regrsn analysis to asss the effects of BMI on sexual health showed that beg younger age, self-intifyg as gay, beg a relatnship, havg longer penis, adoptg sertive posn sex, and beg normal weight were signifint predictors of anal receptive sex whout ndoms, explag 24.2% of the total variance. Yet, BMI was not predictive of sexual functng. <i>Concln</i>. The fdgs highlight the importance of cludg BMI sexual behavr mols of sexual mory men to better unrstand BMI’s role fluencg sexual risk. * gay and overweight *
Inpennt VariablSexual inty was asssed by rponnts’ selectn of one of the followg rpons to “Do you nsir yourself to be”: “Straight, ” “Lbian or gay, ” “Bisexual, ” “Other, ” “Don’t know/Not Sure, ” “Refed, ” and “Not asked or Missg”.
TABLE 16.1 DISTRIBUTNS OF BMI TEGORI AMONG GAY MAL AND STRAIGHT MAL, 20–49 YEARS OF AGE BY EACH OF THREE DIMENSNS OF SEXUALY: 2017–2019 NATNAL SURVEY OF FAY GROWTH (SURVEY ADJTED G NSFG RPONNT SAMPLG WEIGHTS)
While there have been attempts to explore the associatn of oby and risky sexual behavrs among gay men, fdgs have been nflictg. Usg a prospective hort of gay and bisexual men ridg Ptsburgh, we performed a semi-parametric, group-based analysis to intify distct groups o … * gay and overweight *
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SEXUAL, BEHAVRAL, AND QUALY OF LIFE CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTHY WEIGHT, OVERWEIGHT, AND OBE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: FDGS OM A PROSPECTIVE HORT STUDY
Abstract Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to exame the overall prence of and differenc rat of overweight/oby among a large, natnally diverse sample of lbian, gay, bi... * gay and overweight *
Overweightns and oby remas a signifint public health issue, and related out should be studied by sexual mory subgroup orr to avoid maskg important found that the overweight group, the full sample of lbian and gay dividuals had lower odds of overweight (although not signifint). This is nsistent wh past rearch nducted small or regnal sampl that found lbian femal had higher rat of oby [17] and that gay mal had lower rat of oby when pared to heterosexual unterparts [16, 19].
ConclnsOur rults strengthen prev fdgs that lbian and bisexual femal have higher odds of beg overweight or obe, whereas gay mal have lower odds of beg overweight or obe when pared to their straight unterparts. This seems to suggt that the public acceptance and unrstandg of sexualy and sexual orientatn may have changed, and that gay men, at least certa rol, are now more accepted, and perhaps even celebrated.
GAY AND TRANSGENR CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO BE OBE, STUDY FDS
Stereotypil gay mal may be portrayed as flamboyant, hypersexual, effemate, fashnable, th, and preoccupied wh body image (Madon, 1997; McLghl & Rodriguez, 2017; Rothmann, 2013), The last two stereotyp have potential relevance for several health out, cludg overweight and many margalized inti, sexual orientatn and sexualy have been narrowly fed based on certa behavrs, characteristics, and expectatns of what means to be a gay man Ameri. In fact, rearch suggts that gay men, more so than straight men, place a greater emphasis on physil attractivens orr to nform to bety ials and to be more sexually attractive (Siever, 1996; Wood, 2004).