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NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The LGBT community is no longer a walled garden within a metropolitan city, but a vast collection of distinct subgroups -- the majority of whom live integrated lives in all parts of mainstream culture. This is the overarching conclusion from the Beyond Demographics(TM) LGBTid Study done by media agency Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) in collaboration with Logo, Viacom's entertainment brand for gay trendsetters. The study, including a...

Anti-gay Bias Linked to Lack of Awareness of One's Sexual Orientation and Authoritarian Parenting, Study Shows Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates. The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals, including...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- H8SUX.com, a gay activist and T-shirt website, launched today and released its first viral video campaign targeting school kids with an offer of a free "OK4U2BGAY" T-shirt. The free pro-gay shirt will be shipped to any teen who simply makes a special YouTube video pledge to speak out against homophobia at school and support gay marriage. Inspired by the hit show "Glee," the organization released a slickly-produced musical commercial...

NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Oxford University Press: Groundbreaking research from the UK documents an erosion of homophobia in British high schools. Despite media narratives and older research discussing high levels of homophobia within school systems, sociologist Mark McCormack, a qualitative sociologist at Brunel University in England and author of The Declining Significance of Homophobia found that there has been a...

Love from family and friends offer most protection, while bullying causes highest risk What protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youths from considering suicide and, conversely, what makes them most vulnerable to it? The question is of paramount concern because these youths are at least twice as likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual youths, prompting the national "It Gets Better Project" with encouraging video messages from such public figures as Lady Gaga and...

Same sex co-workers sympathize when they observe lack of respect aimed at their colleagues Imagine the following scenarios: a co-worker is spoken to condescendingly, excluded from a meeting, or ignored by a supervisor. How does it make you feel? Do you feel differently depending on whether your co-worker is a man or a woman? According to a new study, workers who witness incivility towards colleagues feel negative emotions – especially when the incivility is aimed at workers of the same...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Gay men are able to lead healthier and less stressful lives when states offer legal protection to same sex couples, according to this study. "Our results suggest that removing these barriers improves the health of gay and bisexual men," Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, PhD, lead author of the study and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, was quoted as saying. In the 12 months following...

Researchers have found that legalizing same-sex marriage may help gay men become healthier. They said that the number of visits by gay men to health clinics in Massachusetts, a state where gay marriage is legal, dropped significantly once same-sex unions were allowed. The team said that this number did not change regardless of whether the men were in a stable relationship or not. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers surveyed 1,211 gay men registered with a...

Gay men are able to lead healthier, less stress-filled lives when states offer legal protections to same-sex couples, according to a new study examining the effects of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. The study, "Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Health Care Use and Expenditures in Sexual Minority Men: A Quasi-Natural Experiment," is online in the American Journal of Public Health. "Our results suggest that removing these barriers improves the health of gay and...

MIAMI, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- For the last 2,000 years, Christians have been taught to believe that Apostle Paul condemned homosexuality. But a new discovery documents that he deliberately acknowledged that it does not prevent anyone from entering heaven. This discovery by internationally acclaimed cryptographer Michael Wood removes the final barrier to full societal acceptance of gays and lesbians. "Michael Wood's discovery is remarkable because it solves a colossal paradox...