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• GAY HUFF
• GAY HUFFGTON POST NTRIBUTOR ARRTED FOR MAKG THREATS AGAST ATLANTA LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB
• I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY

GAY HUFF

The new products now appear to be marketed toward or ed by gay men, who may not regnize the difference between huffg solvents or propellants and the e of alkyl nre poppers.

Ltle if any systematic reportg on the topics of huffg among gay men, eher scholarly journals or the LGBTQ-oriented prs has occurred. Gay and bisexual men, on the other hand, have ltle exposure to huffg but tend to thk of nre poppers as fairly benign.

There’s a real risk here for [gay men] to be takg a much more harmful substance than they’re expectg, and for clicians not to regnize the difference.”. Those health re profsnals workg wh gay men should learn the difference between nre poppers and propellants or solvents monly ed huffg.

GAY HUFFGTON POST NTRIBUTOR ARRTED FOR MAKG THREATS AGAST ATLANTA LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB

In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. 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.

I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY

“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. TTravis Salway, a rearcher wh the BC Centre for Disease Control Vanuver, has spent the last five years tryg to figure out why gay men keep killg themselv.

By the late 2000s, he was a social worker and epimlogist and, like me, was stck by the growg distance between his straight and gay iends. When the dispary first me to light the ’50s and ’60s, doctors thought was a symptom of homosexualy self, jt one of many maniftatns of what was, at the time, known as “sexual versn. ” As the gay rights movement gaed steam, though, homosexualy disappeared om the DSM and the explanatn shifted to trma.

“That was the ia I had, too, ” Salway says, “that gay suici was a product of a bygone era, or was ncentrated among adolcents who didn’t see any other way out. He found that gay men everywhere, at every age, have higher rat of rdvascular disease, ncer, ntence, erectile dysfunctn, ⁠ allergi and asthma—you name , we got .