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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There is also an excellent comment by a “gay” man at the article who was unwittingly honest and let the cat out of the bag. He said that integration with normal society through “marriage” was actually a stressor because homosexual culture is so inherently different than common culture, and they NEVER feel at home in it.
Harry was openly gay as a teenager when I got to know him but he was a funny guy and did not inflict his homosexuality on his mostlyly straight friends. After he graduated from junior college he went to LA and went the whole route in work and culture, becoming a very successful Men’s Furnishings clerk then manager. Eventually, after several of his friends and many others in the community died of the typical homosexual diseases and syndromes over an inordinately short time- now ennobled as AIDS/HIV he went home to St Pete and opened an antique shop in a strip mall and “retired” from The Life. He says he is too old to change and has no regrets but his advice to young fags (his word) is to go to therapy groups to straighten out before they are hopelessly stuck in an extremely depressing world.
They blamed Reagan for the AIDS Epidemic. Are they going to blame him for the Gay Suicide Epidemic too?
They kill themselves because they know inside what they do is abnormal, and no amount of misguided, wrong, and evil people assuring them it is normal will make it normal in their own minds.
From the article:
“Even if no one ever says it, you get the message that youre wrong.”
Well, if dead Republicans can still vote democrat, then anything is possible.
There’s a part of the human mind that’s not amenable to rationalization. This is the secret part of the mind that continually whispers to the homosexual that he’s not right, that what he does is morally repugnant and even criminal in a sense. The homosexual lobby has tried for years to assuage this little demon by attempting to forcibly co-opt the entire population into accepting homosexuality as right. But it’s a losing battle, because the demon himself doesn’t accept the premise.
Every person is “heterosexual” by design. Working against objective design has to do a number on your mind eventually.
LGBTQ individuals are mentally ill. If they weren’t, most of them wouldn’t be mentally ill.
Excellent original point and excellent addendum. Thank you both.
Gays get the party, Lesbians get the cats.
“Over 10% of US gay men have over 1,000 different sexual partners.”
“Pushin’ poop, in the end, that’s what we do!”
Disgusting people, who cares that they die?
Let me explain, it is Just retribution.
“The real shocker and mystery from this graph is why do heterosexual women have almost 3X the suicide rate of heterosexual men. Any ideas?”
My guess? Men! LOL
Stands to reason since mental illness brings about more suicides. Yes, the choice to be gay is a mental illness.
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