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The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Queer woman, Gay, Bisexual Population Mask Orientation, YSPH Study Finds
The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as lesbian, lgbtq+ or bisexual — save their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of General Health that could include 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 public awareness necessary for advancing equivalent 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 explore affiliate at Yale.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study is believed to be the first attempt to quantify the size of the “global closet” in organize to gauge its universal health impact.
“Given rapidly increasing acceptance of sexual minorities in some countries, it might be easy to assume that most sexual minorities are
Kingdom in the Closet: Saudi Arabia's Remarkably Vibrant Lgbtq+ Community
Yasser, a 26-year-old artist, was taking me on an impromptu tour of his hometown of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on a sweltering September afternoon. The air conditioner of his dusty Honda battled the heat, prayer beads dangled from the rearview mirror, and the perceive odor of the cigarette he’d just smoked wafted toward me as he stopped to show me a barbershop that his friends frequent. Officially, men in Saudi Arabia aren’t allowed to wear their hair long or to demonstrate jewelry—such vanities are usually deemed to violate an Islamic instruction that the sexes must not be too similar in appearance. But Yasser wears a silver necklace, a silver bracelet, and a sparkly red stud in his left ear, and his hair is shaggy. Yasser is homosexual, or so we would describe him in the West, and the barbershop we visited caters to gay men. Business is brisk.
Exiting the barbershop, we drove onto Tahlia Street, a broad avenue framed by palm trees, then went past a succession of sleek malls and slowed in front of a glass-and-steel shopping center. Men congregated outside and in nearby cafés. Whereas
I’m a closeted gay man.
When I first typed that sentence, it felt wonderful. The more I looked at it on my screen, the less pleasant it felt. I yearn the courage to delete the word “closeted” and to not confine my declaration to written words that will never be attributed to me by name.
I’m a closeted same-sex attracted man, but of a different sort. I’m attracted to other men – always have been – but I believe in a traditional view of marriage. And I’ve been an evangelical pastor for more than thirty years. Who knows, I might be your pastor.
Gays started using phrases like “coming out of the closet” in the 1960’s, the same decade when I was figuring out that I had this enormous problem that I did not want, did not understand, and that I had no one with whom to talk it over. I didn’t recognize the closet metaphor – I was ten, eleven, twelve in my period of self-discovery – but I knew I needed to put my attraction to other boys and the tingle they caused inside of me away, out of sight, out of anyone else's grasp , behind other stuff.
My family’s sexual ethics contradicted godly wisdom in every way, but even in our house, I knew that boys being attracted to boys would be condemned and met with my father’s lea
Why are we concerned about closeted romances that grow Bromances? A relationship cannot be solely defined as straight. Most believe that Bromance defies the purpose of being gay.
Bromance.Everyone has a different idea of what the definition actually is. One school of thought says that is a platonic relationship between two men. They’re not sleeping with each other, but they love hanging out and doing things together.
Another school of consideration says that it’s when two closeted gay men want to have all the benefits of a boyfriend but without having the relationship. They can’t because they are either in a heterosexual affair or one is homosexual and the other is not.
Yet another school of thought says that it’s two heterosexual men who are in a queer relationship. They either execute not want the nature to know because they’re married, in a steady heterosexual relationship, or their families wouldn’t allow it.
Still, a new school of thought has come to state that a Bromance is simply another way of saying that two masculine men (homosexual or heterosexual) have an unclosed relationship with the other. They’re single, not attached, active men who desire to have sex with each other.
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