Just a quick post before I leave for the airport. What a hectic couple of days but I’m sure it will all be worth it when I’m sitting on the beach wearing a speedo.
Whoever thinks this post is going to be about tasting cum is completely wrong.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been away and I went down the West Coast of New Zealand. It is the first time I’ve seen the ocean since I got here in May. It was nice to be back by the ocean and by tomorrow night I will be living there – woohooooo.
Yep – I fly out tomorrow morning at 10am and I’m excited.
Here are some photos of the West Coast.
With my impending move to Sydney (although I will be living out of Sydney on the beach), I’ve been talking with friends of mine in the city a fair bit lately. Most of my friends who live in the city are gay and I’m looking forward to hanging out with guys who are openly gay. My friends on the coast are all str8, I grew up with str8 friends and some of my best ‘guy sexual partners’ have been bi and very very str8 acting.
I’m very str8 acting myself.
Hanging out with some openly gay guys in a city where I’m not afraid of my grandma walking around the corner seems quite liberating.
However, some of my gay Sydney friends come across as being a bit down. A couple of friends are looking for long term, monogamous relationships and it seems to be getting them down. My str8 guy friends rejoice in their bachelorhood and I know girls who are looking for ‘Mr Right’ but they don’t seem to let it bring them down.
I’m sure I am completely generalizing here but this is what I have observed.
It got me thinking enough that I even did some research and here are a couple of articles I found.
In 1989, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its “Report on the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide,” which found that “A majority of suicide attempts by homosexuals occur during their youth, and gay youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people. (http://www.outproud.org/article_suicide.html)
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) – a branch of the CDC. In 2002, 132,353 individuals were hospitalized following suicide attempts; 116,639 were treated in emergency departments and released. Most suicides are committed with a firearm (55-60 percent). Suicide is the eighth-leading cause of death for all U.S. men; males are four times more likely to die from suicide than females—even though women report attempting suicide during their lifetimes about three times as often as men. (http://www.nypress.com/article-11537-the-other-epidemic.html)
I don’t think you could ever find completely accurate stats on this topic and those 2 articles are pretty old – I only posted them because they weren’t what I had expected.
This post is more of a serious post and I’d like to hear what you guys think and if the rate of suicide among gay/lesbian youth is 2 times the average – is there anything that could be done to help?
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