Gay and Bisexual Men's Health Issu | Johns Hopks Medice

Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

There are a few optns for gay men and bisexual men same-sex relatnships who aspire to have children, cludg surrogacy, where sperm is ed to fertilize a donated egg, which is then rried to term by a surrogate mother. My parents always raised me to believe that everyone is equal and jt bee they love someone of the same sex don't make them any worse than beg gay don't impact my life at all-- so nsir this hypothetil suatn-- if you were to see someone stealg would you act out disgt and nstantly bash that person for stealg?

I hope that one day we n all move towards of acceptance bee someone lovg someone of the same sex lerally do not impact MY life any the end of the day, if you don't like gay upl/marriage/etc.. And though not as physilly threateng, anti-gay slurs and lack of acceptance of sexual mori to muni and fai n also have vastatg psychologil nsequenc on gay and bisexual people.

Rather, the experienc of homophobia, discrimatn, and stigma that LGB people are exposed to put the dividuals at a higher risk of velopg mental health issu due to chronic strs associated wh the experienc. The rults of the study monstrated that dividuals who belong to a sexual mory group wh a heteronormative society are prone to high rat of ternalized homophobia (lack of acceptance of one's own sexualy), stigma, and experienc of discrimatn and vlence. However, spe changg laws and cultural norms, people still hold on to homophobic beliefs and act ways that promote willful ignorance and discrimatn that serve to put the muny at risk both physilly and psychologilly.

WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?

So-lled genome-wi associatn studi intified a gene lled SLITRK6, which is active a bra regn lled the diencephalon that differs size between people who are homosexual or heterosexual. While there is no sgle “gay gene, ” there is overwhelmg evince of a blogil basis for sexual orientatn that is programmed to the bra before birth based on a mix of geics and prenatal ndns, none of which the fet choos.

It’s often gay men who are more sistent on the natens of sexualy, whereas many lbian and bisexual women have phed back at this argument, sce we’ve often (not always) had different experienc wh sexualy. Gabriel Arana, a wrer whom I rpect enormoly, tak issue wh Ambroso by sayg, “the ia that beg gay is a choice is precisely the grounds on which nservativ seek to ny gays and lbians civil rights. “Lbian until graduatn” is by now a well-known phenomenon, and plenty of lbians and gay men have tangled wh those who e to vis for a few nights but head back to heterosexualy once vatn is over.

Which means that tim and muni where the prsure agast beg gay is harsh—durg the 1950s, say, or certa relig muni—the few who “e out” and embrace beg gay are often the on wh no leeway whatsoever, for whom nyg or ignorg that overwhelmg ternal directn would be emotnal suici. Many of the men fightg for LGBT rights spent years alg wh people who wanted to sur away the gay: dads who tnted them to “man up, ” high school athlet who beat them up between class, church group prayer circl that hound them to be cleansed by “reparative therapy.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.