![]() ![]() Marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug reported, regardless of sexual identity. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Imagesġ in 4 Black transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide in past year, survey finds Those in attendance gathered to honor LGBTQ freedom fighters who paved the way to call for the liberation of Black, Brown and Indigenous people, and to demonstrate that trans and queer people are in this fight. Raymond Quitugua of Sacramento, carries the Trans Flag during a march for equality for Black, indigenous and people of color and calling for defunding the police in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, June 28, 2020. However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have similar substance use patterns: There was no difference in smoking between straight and gay males, for example, and the rate of binge and heavy drinking in the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men. Heavy drinking is defined as binge drinking on five or more days in the previous 30 days. The survey identifies binge drinking as consuming more than four or more drinks in one sitting for women or five or more for men. In the month before they took the survey, lesbian and bisexual females were also more likely than straight females to say they had been binge-drinking and about twice as likely to have been heavy drinkers. Women who identify as lesbian or bi were about twice as likely than straight women to have smoked tobacco in the month they took the survey. Mental health and substance use challenges can be even more difficult for women and people of color who are members of the LGB community, the report said.įor example, more than 1 in 4 bisexual females and more than 1 in 7 lesbian females had a major depressive episode in the year they took the survey. And about a third of all bisexual people and gay males said they had a problem with a substance use disorder in the year before they filled out the survey, the report found. Bisexual males were three times more likely to have had problems with serious mental illness in the previous year than their straight counterparts. The report says that of the groups surveyed, people who identify as bisexual face discrimination like other members of the community but may also experience “invisibility and erasure” and a general lack of support.īisexual females were six times more likely to have attempted suicide in the previous year than their straight peers, for example, and were three times more likely to have an opioid use disorder. ‘I don’t want to talk to the gay one’: LGBTQ teachers say they are fighting erasure in their own classrooms Daffne Cruz said a surge in anti-LGBTQ bills, along with the rhetoric that accompanies debates of those bills, has "created a culture of intolerance" among parents and teachers. ![]()
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