Study: Gay People Have Happier Marriag Than Straight People

Contents:

• ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?
• GAY RELATNSHIPS N BE HAPPIER THAN HETERO, STUDY FDS
• WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
• STUDY: GAY RELATNSHIPS MAKE YOU HAPPIER
• ARE GAY COUPL HAPPIER?
• THE KEY TO A HAPPY RELATNSHIP? BE GAY. OR CHILDLS. OR MAKE TEA
• GAY MARRIAGE: SAME, BUT DIFFERENT
• HOW TO MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE GAYER

ARE GAY MEN HAPPIER THAN STRAIGHT MEN?

Men and women 378 gay, lbian, and heterosexual marriag, " acrdg to the study. The first four e om rearch by Gottman & Levenson's (2003), 12-year study on gay and lbian relatnships:.

Equaly and power-sharg are valu more mon to gay and lbian upl than straight upl.

For stance, half of gay men report havg sexual experienc outsi of their relatnship, wh their partner knowg (Hoff, et al., 2010). Children om gay and lbian parents tend to be slightly happier and healthier than children om straight parents (Crouch, et al., 2014). Correlat of gay and lbian upl relatnship satisfactn and relatnship dissolutn.

GAY RELATNSHIPS N BE HAPPIER THAN HETERO, STUDY FDS

Journal of Homosexualy, 45, 22-43, doi:10. A good illtratn of the facts is the recent spate of news stori about how gay men are happier than heterosexual men. "A new study has found that gay and bisexual men are ls likely to be prsed and have psychologil problems than heterosexual men.

"Of urse gays are ls strsed.

WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS

Alas, none of this good news for gays and spankg fetishists is really backed up by the data the origal study, which, while trigug, is hardly evince that is beg out and gay that mak men happier (let alone women). For one, the study reced participants Montreal, a large and fairly progrsive cy where beg openly gay do not e wh high social or enomic sts. While gay men the study seemed to experience ls strs and prsn than straight men, there are a variety of alternative explanatns that might expla this fact (like whether they worked out or not; whether they had children or not; e level and stabily).

In other words, you might be out at work and at home, but if your grandparents don't know you're gay, then you're marked as closeted. Once upon a time there was a gay man and he me out of the closet and was happy and lived happily everyafter.

STUDY: GAY RELATNSHIPS MAKE YOU HAPPIER

It seems like more than jt bad reportg to tell gay men and women that happs is up to them, not the world at large, and happs will rive om disclosure when that very disclosure n be dangero.

All the study really told is that beg gay, male, young, ted and whe a large, libreral cy like Montreal n be advantageo. Hot on the heels of the same-sex marriage bill, new rearch shows that gay and lbian upl tend to have higher-qualy relatnships than their heterosexual unterparts. Profsor Janeen Baxter, Director of the Life Course Centre (LCC) led by The Universy of Queensland, said the qualy of timate relatnships of gay and lbian people was high, if not higher than the qualy of heterosexual upl’ relatnships.

Together they examed the relatnship qualy of bisexual, gay, lbian, and heterosexual people Atralia and the Uned Kgdom.

ARE GAY COUPL HAPPIER?

They believe suggt heterosexual upl uld fact learn somethg om gay and lbian upl. “Further knowledge of the strategi ployed by gay and lbian upl to mata their relatnship qualy spe dividual and stutnal discrimatn uld help to velop new unsellg tools, ” Baxter says.

The thors suggt this uld be bee bisexual dividuals fail to f neatly to eher the heterosexual mastream or the gay and lbian muny, which turn may lead to poorer social works and lower levels of social support. ” Optns of gay/lbian; bisexual; heterosexual or straight; or don’t know.

THE KEY TO A HAPPY RELATNSHIP? BE GAY. OR CHILDLS. OR MAKE TEA

” [only 4 optns, neglect inti such as mostly straight, pansexual, mostly gay, asexual, kk, qutng]. Only 2% intified as gay/lbian and only 2% intified as bisexual. Counter to mon sense, over a third of those wh lifelong same-sex partners and nearly half of those wh lifelong both-sex partners intified not as gay or bisexual but as straight.

GAY MARRIAGE: SAME, BUT DIFFERENT

If you ed an inty measure, gays, lbians, and bisexuals were ls happy than straights. If, however, you ed same-sex behavr, gays and lbians were as happy as straights, but not so for dividuals wh both-sex partners--they remaed relatively unhappy.

Bee the vast majory of dividuals who intify as bisexual are women (equently the 60% to 80% range), any study that b gays/lbians wh bisexuals and fds negative mental or physil health problems likely distorts our unrstandg of sexual mori and th tells ltle about male bisexuals, gay mal, and lbians. Th, if the goal of rearch is to document the problematic nature of beg gay, lbian, or bisexual, asssg sexual inty is the way to go.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE GAYER

Bottom le: Be reful what you read, hear, and believe about gays, lbians, and bisexuals. Shortly after news that the Supreme Court will hear s ncerng same-sex marriage this term, a new study fds that legal regnn of relatnships may improve the mental health of gays and fdgs e om the first large-sle study of how marriage fluenc the mental health of gay, lbian and bisexual people. Realizg that gay relatnships are still stigmatized and that married gay upl don't get many of the feral benefs straight upl expect, Universy of California, Los Angel, public health rearcher Richard Wight wanted to know if marriage would be beneficial for same-sex upl' psychologil functng, too.