34 Facts About Gay men

Gay men continue to face significant discrimination in large parts of the world, including in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

The Spanish conquistadors expressed horror at discovering sodomy openly practiced among native Gay men and used it as evidence of their supposed inferiority.

Many homosexual Gay men went into heterosexual marriages to keep appearances, and some turned to the clergy to escape public scrutiny.

In East Asia, same-sex relations between Gay men has been noted since the earliest recorded history.

Relationships between adult Gay men were still largely considered taboo in Ancient Greek culture.

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Gala took female names, spoke in the eme-sal dialect, which was traditionally reserved for woGay men, and appear to have engaged in homosexual intercourse.

Gay men were one of the primary victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Kissing, mutual masturbation and love-letters between Gay men were now seen as legitimate reasons for the police to make arrests.

Gay men was retroactively identified as the first patient of the AIDS epidemic in the US.

In Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda, gay men receive life imprisonment for homosexual acts, though the law is not regularly enforced in Sierra Leone.

Wayne Marshall wrote that gay men are believed to be "decadent products of the West" and "are thus to be resisted alongside other forms of colonization, cultural or political".

Independent media and human rights groups have reported that gay men are being sent to clandestine camps in Chechnya, described by one eyewitness as "closed prison, the existence of which no one officially knows".

Some gay men have attempted to flee the region, but have been detained by Russian police and sent back to Chechnya.

Witnesses have reported that the gay men are regularly beaten, tortured with electricity, and spat in the face by prison guards.

Sex between Gay men is explicitly outlawed in 10 of the 18 "Middle Eastern" countries and is punishable by death in six.

Younger generation of gay men gained prominence in the fashion world during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Gay men's work had an international influence in queer film art.

In recent years, gay men have sought to disassociate themselves from the term.

In many forms of popular entertainment, gay men are portrayed stereotypically as promiscuous, flamboyant, flashy, and sassy.

Gay men are rarely the main characters in mainstream films; they frequently play the role of stereotyped supporting characters or are portrayed as either a victim or the villain.

Nevertheless, gay men are still frequently portrayed in the United States as symbols of social decadence by evangelists and organizations such as Focus on the Family.

In recent years, positive representations of gay men entered mainstream television programming critiques emerged about the lack of diverse representations of gay men onscreen.

In countries with diverse racial populations, such as the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men are found disproportionately in working-class and communities of color.

Gay and bisexual men are exposed to significant minority stress, which is the constant exposure to stressors because of their minority identity in society.

Gay and bisexual men are at greater risk of dying by suicide; they are one of the demographic groups most likely to have tried to commit suicide, as well as to actually die by suicide.

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The Williams Institute's research team found that gay and bisexual men received longer and harsher sentences for the same crimes committed compared to heterosexual men.

In North America and Europe, gay men have several subcultures, including Twinks, Bears, Otters, Queens, Jocks, Gaymers, and others.

In India, where a gay culture is slowly emerging, despite anti-gay "societal values, the caste system, arranged marriages, [and] the high probability of being disinherited for coming out", some gay men are working to develop a mature and distinct-Indian culture while adopting aspects of global gay culture.

Gay adolescents, boys, and young men are a uniquely vulnerable segment of the gay male population.

In Western Europe, most of South America, and North America gay men can became fathers in a variety of ways, including adoption, surrogates, and births from previous relationships.

Additionally, Swiss researchers have found that gay fathers report less irritation when their children display negative emotions than do straight fathers, and gay men show higher levels of warmth and cooperation toward their partners than do straight men.

Older gay men are one of the least studied groups within gay men's communities.

Disabled gay men represent a significant but under-represented portion of the community.

The gay men I know don't know how to deal with it [my disability].