Gay Suicides Are On The Rise. This Epidemiologist Explains Why.

The Huffington Post ^ | 06/05/2019 | Michael Hobbes

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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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None of this is surprising to we who have our eyes open. The rest of the article on the reasons is predictable bunk.

[madprof98]

Exactly. Thanks for the post.

[gaijin]

Over 10% of US gay men have over 1,000 different sexual partners.

[mrmeyer]

Unintended consequences of free will.

[Red Badger]

Yet we still lag far behind the straight and cis population when it comes to mental health, substance abuse and HIV rates.

We know....................Perhaps that is a CLUE......................

[circlecity]

I would also note there is an exceptional amount of drug addiction and usage among the gay male community.

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[Roman_War_Criminal]

Free will left to the whims of a debased mind. The results are always catastrophic.

[Pravious]

Wow. Mentally ill people kill themselves more than non-mentally ill people? Who would ever have guessed.

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I would also note there is an exceptional amount of drug addiction and usage among the gay male community.

And it's not due to medicating their depression. They take drugs most frequently to maximize the sex "high" while being sodomized.

[ConservativeMind]

Could it be that the stereotypical gay person is expect to be open and flamboyant, while there’s no current law requiring others to agree and support that?

It’s likely these are fragile people or people who realized their lives are empty with the banality of wrapping one’s complete identity in nothing but “gayness?”

[Gene Eric]

A behavior furthest from “free will” as far as I’m concerned.

[FLT-bird]

Not surprising at all given that they’ve already shown themselves to be mentally ill.

[I want the USA back]

Mind out of whack leads to the gay lifestyle. Mind out of whack leads to unhappiness and frustration.

[steve8714]

Maybe an intrinsically sad and disordered lifestyle choice, based on bad information?

[rktman]

Uh, let me think. Uh, probably because of the H8 that Trump supporters show to all glbtqxyzpbdsm entities? You know, the intolerance we have. /s

[G Larry]

"Minority Stress" is pure BS.

Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children and the continued behavior is a coping mechanism that fails to resolve the inner conflict between the learned behavior and the natural desire for heterosexual relationships.

[NorseViking]

“” “” suicide had surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death among gay and bisexual men.”” “”

What a life! Why didn’t they mention murder which is higher rate with this group too.
That’s really gay.

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Maybe an intrinsically sad and disordered lifestyle choice, based on bad information?

I commented as much on the Huff Blow website. Don't know if it's been pulled yet.

[the_daug]

It’s a mental illness doc!