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The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out
In the jargon of contemporary homosexual tradition, those who cloak their sexual identities are referred to as either closeted or said to be in the closet. Revealing one's homosexuality is referred to as coming out. Clinical encounter with gay patients reveals hiding and revealing behaviors to be psychologically complex.
Homosexual Identities
In the developmental histories of male lover men and women, periods of difficulty in acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others, are often reported. Children who grow up to be gay rarely receive family assist in dealing with antihomosexual prejudices. On the contrary, commencement in childhood--and distinguishing them from racial and ethnic minorities--gay people are often subjected to the antihomosexual attitudes of their own families and communities (Drescher et al., 2004). Antihomosexual attitudes add homophobia (Weinberg, 1972), heterosexism (Herek, 1984), moral condemnations of homosexuality (Drescher, 1998) and antigay abuse (Herek and Berrill, 1992). Hiding activities learned in childhood often persist into young adulthood, middle age an
How times have changed for LGBTQ … or have they?
There is no doubt that we have seen an increase in acceptance of LGBTQ over the past two decades. I never thought in my lifetime that I would ever be accepted for existence an out lgbtq+ man nor be able to legally marry my husband of 28 years.
Of course, we still see people who are LGBTQ attacked by the culture at huge for, of course, being LGBTQ. Despise crimes are on the rise nationally and according to the Human Rights Campaign, “Hate crimes based on sexual orientation represent 16.7% of hate crimes, the third-largest category after race and religion.”
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While acceptance of us LGBTQ folks have risen, I’ve been surprised at how people who are perceived to be closeted gays are being attacked for being closeted!
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I filmed a video on TikTok, and expressed an unpopular view about how direct men can still enjoy sex with men.
I was surprised by all the comments I’m still getting from people who saw the video and assumed that I was either a closeted gay or multi-attracted man. In existence, as a sex therapist and educator, I was sharing one of the ma
The Closet
Teaching and Learning
by Amin Ghaziani | September 27, 2017 | Summer 2017
How many Americans execute you think are queer or lesbian? Take a minute, think about it, and take your foremost guess.
You’re probably mistaken.
Like most of us, you may have overestimated the population. “The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian,” notes the Gallup polling organization. The table below shows the responses that Gallup received in 2011 and then in 2015 to the question, “Just your best guess, what % of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?”
Only 9% of Americans correctly estimate the size of the gay and lesbian population at somewhere under 5%. Why are we so far off? Part of the explanation comes from people’s misunderstanding of social statistics. We make similar mistakes when we estimate the size of racial and ethnic populations. Gallup remarks, “Americans estimate that a third of the U.S. population is shadowy , and believe almost three in 10 are Hispanic, more than twice what the actual percentages were as measured by the census.” The better educated you are, the bring down (and m
The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person Population Hide Orientation, YSPH Research Finds
The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as queer woman , gay or bisexual — hold their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of Public Health that could have major implications for global public health.
Concealing one’s sexual orientation can lead to significant mental and physical health issues, increased healthcare costs and a dampening of the common visibility necessary for advancing matching rights, said John Pachankis, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He co-authored the study with Richard Bränström, an associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and research affiliate at Yale.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study is believed to be the first try to quantify the size of the “global closet” in command to gauge its public health impact.
“Given rapidly increasing acceptance of sexual minorities in some countries, it might be easy to assume that most sexual minorities are