Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health.
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
Rearch has shown that the followg are some of the most mon health ncerns faced by gay and bisexual men. * what is wrong with being gay *
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.
WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?WHAT’S WRONG WH CHOOSG TO BE GAY?
People beg gay don't impact my life, or your life, at all * what is wrong with being gay *
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. 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.
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
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.