As wh straight upl, marriage is lked to good mental health for gays and lbians.
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?
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. * are gay couples happier *
Men and women 378 gay, lbian, and heterosexual marriag, " acrdg to the study.
GAY RELATNSHIPS N BE HAPPIER THAN HETERO, STUDY FDS
* are gay couples happier *
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. Journal of Homosexualy, 45, 22-43, doi:10.
WHO ARE THE HAPPIT? STRAIGHTS AND GAYS, BUT NOT BISEXUALS
A new study fds that gay upl are more ntent wh their relatnships than their heterosexual unterparts. * are gay couples happier *
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.
STUDY: GAY RELATNSHIPS MAKE YOU HAPPIER
Rearchers have spoken and they nfirm the fact that gay relatnships n be happier than hetero uplg. This may e as a surprise * are gay couples happier *
"Of urse gays are ls strsed. 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.
ARE GAY COUPL HAPPIER?
Gay marriag tend to be more egalarian wh upl leang on a work of iends and reportg beg happier and have ls nflict than straight upl. * are gay couples 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.
THE KEY TO A HAPPY RELATNSHIP? BE GAY. OR CHILDLS. OR MAKE TEA
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.
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.
GAY MARRIAGE: SAME, BUT DIFFERENT
” Optns of gay/lbian; bisexual; heterosexual or straight; or don’t know.
” [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.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE GAYER
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. 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.