bobbythefap1 wrote on Dec 16
th, 2012 at 1:44pm:
Saying that homosexuals are unhappy or unhealthy, does not in any way prove that is due to their homosexuality.
If not due to, it may be, in substantial part, in consequence of.
In their paper "The Stigmatization of the Gay and Lesbian Adolescent" published in "Journal of Homosexuality" in 1988, Martin and Hetrick wrote:
Quote:Although medically based diagnosis and treatment is the traditional approach to the problems of homosexually oriented adolescents, the cognitive dissonance that characterizes so much of their emotional and psychological state arises from their membership in a hated and despised minority group - that is, from "the painful experience of being different".
Openly expressed gay and lesbian identities are more socially accepted now than they were 30 years ago, so, while still a minority, gays and lesbians are less hated and despised today than they were when Bell & Weinberg conducted their research. I agree with gizmo that those findings are unlikely to be relevant to the situation today.
Do we have any current research on the subject?