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Gay Suicides Are On The Rise. This Epidemiologist Explains Why.
The Huffington Post ^ | 06/05/2019 | Michael Hobbes

Posted on 06/06/2019 8:09:28 AM PDT by fwdude

One of the indescribable aspects of being a member of a minority group is knowing that things are better than they have ever been and, simultaneously, not good enough.

The LGBTQ community has won the right to same-sex marriage and achieved unprecedented visibility in politics, media and entertainment. Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.

Travis Salway is an epidemiologist trying to close this gap. In 2014, he discovered that in Canada, suicide had surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death among gay and bisexual men.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fdrq; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; psychology; riskybehavior; suicide; trends
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To: fwdude

Mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates are part and parcel of the whole gay lifestyle, if it may be called that.

LGBT is more of a “deathstyle”. It is sterile, stilted, and a grotesque parody of lives that human beings were meant to live in the brief time each of us spend upon this plane of existence.

Not evil, necessarily. Just - failed.


21 posted on 06/06/2019 8:24:40 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: gaijin

I once asked a gay man in a ‘committed relationship’ why they do this?

His response: ‘We don’t equate sex with love.’ The two are unrelated feelings.

My response: ‘So, sex is a ‘sport’ for ‘entertainment’ value?’

His response: ‘Yes, basically. Like a carnival ride or whatever else you do for pleasure and fun.’

He was dismissive of the disease factor although he lives in one the nations highest AIDS sectors.

[He (60YO) was once married with 2 daughters. His wife died of cancer. He married a man, then divorced. Now he’s engaged to another guy.]


22 posted on 06/06/2019 8:24:52 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: fwdude

One could argue that the very large number of surgeries (and the hour-by-hour attention to makeup, dress, appearance and demeanor) required to “become” a trans or bisexual IS “suicide”.

It’s sad that half attempted to kill themselves.
It’s telling that only half actually attempting to physically kill themselves.


23 posted on 06/06/2019 8:25:39 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: fwdude

24 posted on 06/06/2019 8:27:05 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: fwdude
Gay Suicides Are On The Rise. This Epidemiologist Explains Why.

Scientist Travis Salway discovered that suicide had surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death for gay and bisexual men in Canada.

No. This doesn't explain anything.

Are they saying the homosexual community is used to having high death rates which used to be because of HIV but since HIV is now relatively treatable, homosexuals are now killing themselves to keep their death rates high?

25 posted on 06/06/2019 8:27:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: NorseViking

I’m surprised they didn’t throw in “gun” deaths.


26 posted on 06/06/2019 8:27:31 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: fwdude

My first pass hypothesis is that the falling HIV mortality is just unmasking the suicide rate. That is, some of those that died of HIV would have committed suicide if they hadn’t died of HIV first.


27 posted on 06/06/2019 8:29:22 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: fwdude

The trannies were who successful in committing suicide aren’t in the sample. Including successful suicides, the odss might be 75 or 80 percent commit or attempt to commit suicide.


28 posted on 06/06/2019 8:30:00 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: fwdude

The real shocker and mystery from this graph is why do heterosexual women have almost 3X the suicide rate of heterosexual men. Any ideas?


29 posted on 06/06/2019 8:31:14 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: fwdude

Attempted suicide is not completed suicide

Mentaly ill people attempt


30 posted on 06/06/2019 8:31:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: fwdude

The LGBTQ community has won the right to same-sex marriage and achieved unprecedented visibility in politics, media and entertainment. Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.

...

That’s because you are mentally ill.


31 posted on 06/06/2019 8:31:55 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: fwdude
Yet a psychologist, psychiatrist or therapist who suggests to a LGBT person, "You know, you really don't have to live this way" will lose their job, their license, and their future.

Go figure.

32 posted on 06/06/2019 8:32:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." - Romans 12:9)
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To: fwdude

Suicide is Painless.

And if you remember in the original M*A*S*H movie, “Painless”, the dentist wanted to kill himself because he thought he was a ‘fairy’, when he couldn’t get himself aroused for a woman.


33 posted on 06/06/2019 8:33:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: G Larry
"The predominant theory is called “minority stress.” The idea is that sexual minorities accumulate stressors in multiple forms. That includes overt things like beatings and name-calling..."

Can you think of a more "stressed" group than American Blacks at various points in our nation's history? Is there record of them killing themselves in large numbers? No. How about German Jews in the 1930's? They didn't kill themselves either and were far more "stressed" than today's gays in the Western World. What a bogus theory.

34 posted on 06/06/2019 8:34:06 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Exactly.


35 posted on 06/06/2019 8:35:49 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: yesthatjallen

They have rather avoided the point that many of those that would have otherwise died of HIV are now killing themselves.
Assuming this data is valid at all.

HIV deaths are reasonably but not entirely reliable, there is medical info on treatment, if there is treatment. But its well known many HIV cases cause of death was not listed as HIV, and many were untreated for various reasons. And still are.

This whole gay suicide statistic is pretty unreliable. How can anyone determine whether any given case if suicide is of a homosexual? Man OD’s alone, death reported, who fills in the blank about whether he was homosexual?


36 posted on 06/06/2019 8:37:52 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: fwdude

I have long known a homosexual man since he was 15 years old. His brother was my best friend. I have talked to Harry many times about all this. He says that his communmity was on the whole more satisfied with life, happier, when most were “in the closet.” They could interact with the world at large as people instead of ad designated hedonists. Their relationships with the normies was as other normies. Now their homosexuality is a necessary part of the relationship with everyone and it is depressing. Harry says that car people don’t want cars to be the only damned thing people talk about or think about when they are in the same room with them.


37 posted on 06/06/2019 8:41:34 AM PDT by arthurus (z<<<d d d azaszz)
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To: fwdude

Money doesn’t satisfy you. Lots of neat toys don’t satisfy you. Success doesn’t satisfy you. Power doesn’t satisfy you. Family doesn’t satisfy you. . . .

Lots and lots of people chase their whole lives for happiness, satisfaction and love. Many never ever find it. Many are never content. Some commit suicide; some don’t.

Maybe, just maybe, some of these need to repair their relationship with their Maker.


38 posted on 06/06/2019 8:41:40 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: fwdude

I have long known a homosexual man since he was 15 years old. His brother was my best friend. I have talked to Harry many times about all this. He says that his community was on the whole more satisfied with life, happier, when most were “in the closet.” They could interact with the world at large as people instead of ad designated hedonists. Their relationships with the normies was as other normies. Now their homosexuality is a necessary part of the relationship with everyone and it is depressing. Harry says that car people don’t want cars to be the only damned thing people talk about or think about when they are in the same room with them.


39 posted on 06/06/2019 8:41:47 AM PDT by arthurus (z<<<d d d azaszz)
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To: nwrep
The real shocker and mystery from this graph is why do heterosexual women have almost 3X the suicide rate of heterosexual men. Any ideas?

The answer almost seems too obvious to be valid.

Women are women. And women are fundamentally, inherently different from men.

I know that sounds like begging the question, but it is a result of temperament makeup. Women, on the whole, are - excuse me - the "weaker sex," and are more fragile than men, who tough through hard times more often. That is why the woman most often enters the marriage relationship, for a protector.

40 posted on 06/06/2019 8:42:47 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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