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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Homonegativity: What’s The Deal, ABC?

Homonegativity: What’s The Deal, ABC?

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“According to a new study [...] homosexuals and bisexuals are about 50% more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to suffer from depression and abuse drugs [...] most likely due to the lifelong stresses caused by the discrimination and rejection that homosexuals and bisexuals suffer from.” (From About.com’s Depression Blog post, Homosexuality Strongly Linked to Depression and Suicide)
“Researchers at the University of Minnesota have published a study showing that the degree of internalized homonegativity (negative attitude towards homosexuality) among homosexual men is what predicts poor mental and sexual health – not the act of being homosexual.” (From …read more

Similarities Among Brains Of Gay Men And Straight Women

Similarities Among Brains Of Gay Men And Straight Women

Homosexuality is no longer defined as a mental illness (it was, you know, by the American Psychiatric Association until 1973), but researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have joined the number of researchers who have studied the brain to see if there’s a connection between it and our sexual orientation.
The results?
Simply put, researchers found symmetry among the brains of gay men and straight women, as well as among the brains of lesbians and straight men.
Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, …read more


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