Posted on 06/28/2016 9:16:33 PM PDT by Zakeet
Gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals reported more health problems than straight men and women, in a large U.S. survey.
For the first time since its launch in 1957, the National Health Interview Survey in 2013 and 2014 included a question about sexual orientation.
With nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian, gay and bisexual adults "were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, potentially due to the stressors that (they) experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination," researchers wrote online June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Gilbert Gonzales of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues found that compared to heterosexual women, lesbians were 91 percent more likely to report poor or fair health. Lesbians were 51 percent more likely, and bisexual women were more than twice as likely, to report multiple chronic conditions, compared to straight women.
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Gonzales told Reuters Health that the health disparities are likely due to the stress of being a minority ...
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Other factors too, along with so-called minority stress, may account for health differences between heterosexuals and lesbian, gay and bisexual people, Gonzales said.
For example, he said, survey respondents may not have had access to marriage, which wasn't legalized at the federal level in the U.S. until 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
It's rejection by people like you Freepers ... along with the stress of being a minority, not having access to marriage, and not being allowed to use the bathroom of his declared gender to troll for partners ... that causes people like this guy to smoke, drink, undergo psychological distress and suffer from poor health!
Oh no! Straight people are the oppressers, the LGBT people will say next.
excess problems; OF COURSE. It’s called AIDS. See Sebastian Bach for more honest details about it.
It really sounds like a sin problem to me. Many Christians are even sick from sin problems. Sin is a real killer and has no respect for anyone.
” “were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, “
This is my surprised face.
“Stressors” my ass. Just an expected constellation of ailments tied to the underlying biggie.
Bad meat in the can will always make you sick.
They take it up the wazzoo which is filthy. Then they stay up all night dancing. And they drink to forgot the guilt and all.
All of this is bad for the health.
How very queer, it doesn’t mention drug abuse, physical abuse from sexual partners, or STDs.
Such is the price of the perpetual hedonist party lifestyle.
Yeah but let’s not allow insurers to use that data on actuarial tables like they do for those evil cigarette smokers.
It would be cool to write a pledge for liberals:
“I pledge that if I ever need a blood transfusion, I will insist on taking a transfusion from a gay sexually active male. I pledge to demand we reduce our prison populations and have as many freed prisoners as possible living next door to me.”
That’s a start—we could list a bunch.
The only “sins” today are racism and homophobia.
Great response !
It would be terrible if we didn’t have studies like this to tell us how our “micro-aggressions” are making people we never talk to, never see, never interact with and even if we do we probably never say an unkind word to feel so bad about themselves that we are making them sick.
Nah it's caused by sticking things where they don't belong with thousands of random sexual partners who have thousands of other random sexual partners during their lifetime. The odds area helluva a lot higher of catching STDs naturally. But of course this doesn't fit the utopian unicorn unverse where everybody shares their "love" with their fellow pansexuals that they portray so it won't even be considered as a possible cause.
They suffer from mental problems, they know they suffer from mental problems, but no one is allowed to say that they suffer from a mental problem or try to help them resolve it.
So they keep trying to live a lie. And they know it is a lie. They know they are not healthy but they think that they have no place to go.
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