Suicidality Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Taiwan: Its Relationships with Sexuality and Gender Role Characteristics, Homophobic Bullying Victimization, and Social Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 466-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng‐Wei Wang ◽  
Nai‐Ying Ko ◽  
Ray C. Hsiao ◽  
Mu‐Hong Chen ◽  
Huang‐Chi Lin ◽  
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Author(s):  
Dian-Jeng Li ◽  
Yu-Ping Chang ◽  
Yi-Lung Chen ◽  
Cheng-Fang Yen

Problematic internet/smartphone use (PI/SU) and homophobic bullying has become a new type of mental health problem among sexual minorities. However, few studies have investigated the mediators of the association between these factors. We aimed to develop a model to estimate the mediating effect of emotional symptoms, including depression and anxiety, on this association among gay and bisexual men in Taiwan. In total, 500 gay or bisexual men in early adulthood were recruited, and their histories of homophobic bullying victimization during childhood and adolescence, current severity of PI/SU, and current emotional symptoms were evaluated using self-administered questionnaires. A mediation model was developed to test the mediating effect of emotional symptoms on the association between homophobic bullying victimization and PI/SU. In total, 190 (38%) and 201 (40.2%) of the participants had experiences of traditional and cyber homophobic bullying victimization, respectively. A higher level of homophobic bullying victimization was significantly associated with a more severe level of PI/SU, and this was mediated by a higher severity of emotional symptoms. There was a significant effect of emotional symptoms on the association between homophobic bullying victimization and PI/SU. Timely interventions for emotional symptoms are necessary for gay and bisexual men, especially for those who are victims of homophobic bullying.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Capistrant ◽  
Lindsey Lesher ◽  
Nidhi Kohli ◽  
Enyinnaya Merengwa ◽  
Badrinath Konety ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1329-1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Capistrant ◽  
Beatriz Torres ◽  
Enyinnaya Merengwa ◽  
William G. West ◽  
Darryl Mitteldorf ◽  
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ILR Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Blandford

This analysis of 1989–96 General Social Survey data reveals how sexual orientation and gender jointly influence earnings outcomes. Gay and bisexual men experienced a 30–32% income disadvantage relative to heterosexual peers, while lesbian and bisexual women enjoyed a wage premium of 17–23%. The disparate earnings effects of sexual orientation across genders suggest that workplace discrimination may be only one factor accounting for measured wage differentials associated with sexual orientation. These findings qualify pioneering work on the subject that indicated that wage differentials were attributable largely to employer bias. A further analysis that distinguishes the separate effects of gender, marital status, and sexual orientation suggests that differentials long attributed to marital status may in part reflect previously unobserved effects of sexual orientation.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Carlos Ulises Decena

This article is based on retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men who live or have lived in New York City. It offers an alternative to established and influential interpretations of queer subject constitution that overemphasize abjection while ignoring the polyvalence of identities. Through an engagement with the conditions that make the figure of la loca [the effeminate homosexual] instrumental in the expression of closeness and intimacy among the men with whom I spoke, the article analyzes the way this signifier operates in the making and regulation of networks of self-identified Dominican gay and bisexual men. It conceptualizes “code swishing,” borrowing from scholarship on bilingualism and “code switching.” But it revises this work to implicate the body and gender dissent as communicative practices and to make clear that these men juggled their desire to establish and sustain networks with one another so long as expressions of camaraderie and connection did not threaten their legitimacy in daily life and their investments in normative masculinity. For them, surviving and being respected was more important than any sense of “community” they may have felt toward one another.


2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 604-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor A. Hart ◽  
Syed W. Noor ◽  
Julia R. G. Vernon ◽  
Ammaar Kidwai ◽  
Karen Roberts ◽  
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