M.G Gay Pride Event Seeks To Prevent Suicide

       What is a homosexual? A person becomes a homosexual ultimately by choosing to be with the same sex activity, this is in contrast to innate characteristics such as gender and ethnicity. What is wrong with a person being homosexual? In Genesis chapter 1v 2 Jesus question about marriage he referred that male and female complementing each other that is Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. These days people twisting things around as of where man vs., man and females vs.  Females are getting married.            Research has shown 1/3 percent of teenagers that suicidal are gay. It is a sad situation to witness one tenth of the population is homosexual. Andrew Lansdowne points out that homosexual activity are notoriously disease prone. In addition to disease associated with heterosexual on life expectancy of a group of homosexual men.  In Canada in the early 1990’s it  indicated  that they could expect eight to twenty year less lifespan,  due to the fact of these disease such as Anal Herpes, Hepatitis B, Intestinal Parasites, Kaposi’s Sarcoma and  the most deadly one Aids.

According to 2007 Massachusetts youth risk survey, a lot of the gay, lesbian, heterosexual are age group in their 20’s. They fall into peer pressure. They came out looking for acceptance and love.  Studied show that homosexuals have substanciatially greater risk of suffering from psychiatric problem than heterosexual we have witnesses higher risk of suicide, depression, bulimia, antisocial personality disorder and substance abuse. In my research I found that

The first study was on male twins who had served Vietnam (Herrelet All 1999) it concluded that average male homosexuals were 5.1 times more to exhibit suicide. Writing this paper; I read about a story that really touches my heart.  I would like to take a moment to share his story to the class.      Bill Clayton was a fourteen years old boy who came out as a bisexual; peers did not understand his declaration of sexual orientation. Unfortunately he was brutally rape by a twenty years old man in his local area. That was just the beginning of his violence, and harassment of his life.          After his rape he started with downward spinal into depression.  After the anti-hate-Rally they did at a local area after his rape:  at the age of 17 Bill overdosed himself. His mother found him unconscious on the kitchen floor. After his death Bill was rejected as an organ donor because of his sexual orientation and the assumption that gays are at high risk for HIV.     Suicide prevention programs can be effective in diminishing risk factors and especially in building protective factors, yet few target risk and protective factors relevant to homosexual youth. Those who have contact with youth and are trained to recognize at risk youth and refer  Allen, Dan. “Does Teen Pride Save Lives?” Advocate 919 (2004):   Li Kitts, Robert. “Gay Adolescents and Suicide: Understanding the Association.” Adolescence 2005Naples Daily News Paper………2011

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