Langzeitstudie ergibt eine Erweiterung der Kluft in der sozialen Isolation zwischen sexuellen Minderheiten und heterosexuellen Erwachsenen
Langzeitstudie ergibt eine Erweiterung der Kluft in der sozialen Isolation zwischen sexuellen Minderheiten und heterosexuellen Erwachsenen
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Yes, being a minority that is maligned in various ways comes with social issues particularly if you live outside of areas where it’s acceptable and even then it depends on various things like religious background etc. what you’re exposed to early on.
The gop will ignore this at best, but probably think it’s a good thing. Dems will spin it into needing more DEI funding. Neither will address the real issue which is the decline of 3rd places.
> The findings also revealed which aspects of social isolation were most affected by sexual orientation. Across the board, sexual minority participants were **more likely to report being unpartnered and less likely to attend religious services**. However, **no significant differences emerged in volunteering activity or frequency of friendship ties**.
Wait a minute… So people with less common orientations are less likely to go to church or have monogamous relationships? But everything else is aligned?
Who conducted this – Turning Point USA?
I wonder how much of this is the result of the fear of saying something or doing something that would offend them?
Basically, post #MeToo, many men are less likely to mentor women or enter into more friendly relationships for fear of their friendliness being misinterpreted. They will stick to keeping their relationship strictly professional out of personal protection. [[1](https://www.axios.com/2019/05/17/lean-in-poll-finds-men-increasingly-nervous-mentoring-women)%5D%5B%5B2%5D(https://www.labmanager.com/women-missing-out-on-workplace-mentoring-post-metoo-25505)]
The same kind of dynamic could be present when online activists seem to want to treat every minor transgression as a hate crime.
Many heterosexual adults quite easily progress into relationships and having families/children (either intentionally or accidentally). I believe this influences social circles more than most people would realise, because on the one hand their time and availability is now much more limited and on the other hand they are a lot more likely to form circumstantial friendships with other parents from spending far more time in places where people take their kids.
But none of this is a universal experience for sexual minorities who often struggle to find relationships to begin with and for whom starting a family is a much more deliberate choice. One day they wake up to realise that the majority of people they grew up with or are friends with have moved into a different stage in life that doesn’t really include them anymore.
I wonder if part of this is leaving less accepting families. Having family reject you would make you cautious with making new connections.
>Social isolation was measured across four domains: intimate relationship status, friendship ties, religious attendance, and volunteering. Participants were considered isolated in a domain if they met criteria such as being unpartnered, falling into the bottom quartile of friendship frequency, attending religious services less than once a month, or not volunteering in the past year
What a strange way to measure isolation. It’s no surprise that few gay people regularly attend religious services. Many volunteer groups are centred around families with children (e.g. sports), which favours straight people participating more than gay people.
On partnership status, many gay men are more able than straight people to access sex while being single, which contributes to a difference in the way they approach becoming partnered or remaining single.
As a gay man, something additional that I think would be interesting to study is how childhood/adolescent exposure to “being othered” and “being closeted” (or effectively having to hide an aspect of yourself “for protections”) affects social isolation and social relationships as “sexual minority” people age.
From as early as I can remember I sensed that I was different than my peers. And they sensed it too. I remembered the first time I was bullied for being gay was in 2nd grade (and I didn’t come out until college). The entirety of my schooling experience and early relationship building is clouded by my sexuality (and not to catastrophize my lived experience haha, just to state that there was not really a time for me when being closeted/“othered” was not a factor for me)
Likewise, I also struggled with social isolation in grade school. I remember with so much embarrassment my mom making me go talk to the counselor at school because “I didn’t have any friends.” (Don’t worry, this has thankfully changed for me).
Anecdotally, struggling with early childhood relationships (especially with same sex peers) is not uncommon among my queer friends, and especially as an early childhood educator who has watched this dynamic play out with other children, I wonder how much these early experiences play into this gap versus the gap “being created” by experiences in adulthood.