{"id":42769,"date":"2016-08-13T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-heartbreaking-look-at-why-so-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted\/"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:25:40","slug":"a-heartbreaking-look-at-why-so-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-heartbreaking-look-at-why-so-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heartbreaking Look At Why So Many Bisexual Men Remain Closeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A Heartbreaking Look At Why So Many Bisexual Men Remain Closeted<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/12130410\/bisexual-man-in-shadow.jpg\" alt=\"bisexual-man-in-shadow\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/12130410\/bisexual-man-in-shadow.jpg 640w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/08\/12130410\/bisexual-man-in-shadow-360x203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would never tell anyone,&rdquo;&nbsp;a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> participant in a recent study conducted by&nbsp;Columbia University&rsquo;s Mailman School of Public Health. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll go to my grave with this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The study, which was released earlier this summer, looked at roughly 200 closeted <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> with wives or <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriends<\/a>, and the findings were pretty heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/bisexuals-self-destructive-study-may-answer-20160628\" target=\"_blank\">Why Are Bisexuals So Self-Destructive? This Study May Have The Answer.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Schrimshaw, an associate professor of sociomedical sciences, helped lead the study and says it&nbsp;sheds&nbsp;even more light on&nbsp;some of the reasons why <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bi<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>&nbsp;choose to&nbsp;remain&nbsp;closeted,&nbsp;even today, in the year 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> interviewed&nbsp;said they kept their true sexual orientations a secret&nbsp;out of the fear of criticism and ridicule by&nbsp;their peers. They&nbsp;worried their wives and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriends<\/a> would have &ldquo;extreme negative reactions,&rdquo; and that their friends and family members would treat them differently.<\/p>\n<p>And, honestly, they&rsquo;re justified in feeling that way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/bi-men-fear-coming-out-85326cbbc579#.ynunz5u2v\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Think Progress<\/em><\/a> points to a 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2013-11\/uops-cgr103113.php\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2013-11\/uops-cgr103113.php\">study<\/a> by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health&nbsp;that&nbsp;found that many people, including many <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbians<\/a>, have negative perceptions of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> people, labeling&nbsp;them&nbsp;&ldquo;confused&rdquo; and &ldquo;experimental.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/point-person-stop-bi-curious-just-become-bisexual-20160731\" target=\"_blank\">At What Point Does A Person Stop Being &ldquo;Bi-curious&rdquo; And Just Become Bisexual?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> in his 40s&nbsp;told researchers at Columbia that&nbsp;he had briefly considered telling his long-term <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriend<\/a> about his sexuality. &ldquo;I thought, if there was anyone I could tell, I could tell her,&rdquo; he&nbsp;said. But he&nbsp;changed his mind after seeing how she reacted to learning a friend&rsquo;s husband was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of the&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> also said they remained closeted because they didn&rsquo;t want to be labeled as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;have&nbsp;their attraction to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>&nbsp;discounted, or because they feared becoming targets of violence.&nbsp;One participant&nbsp;revealed&nbsp;that when his cousin came out, his family beat him up&nbsp;then&nbsp;disowned him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Men link those stigmatizing reactions and that anticipation of stigmatizing reactions to the fact that they are from a particular culture or religion,&rdquo; Schrimshaw says, &ldquo;so it&rsquo;s an extra factor that facilitates those negative reactions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So what&rsquo;s the takeaway from all this?<\/p>\n<p>Well, researchers say, people need to start recognizing that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> really <em>do<\/em> exist. They aren&rsquo;t confused or secretly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> or wish-washy. And they&rsquo;re perfectly capable of being in monogamous heterosexual relationships. Or monogamous <em>homosexual<\/em> relations. Because, after all, that&rsquo;s what being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> is all about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/time-start-nicer-bisexuals-20160720\" target=\"_blank\">Is It Time To Start Being Nicer To Bisexuals?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>h\/t:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/bi-men-fear-coming-out-85326cbbc579#.ynunz5u2v\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Think Progress<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=5TgOWT1aBNY:N41pFjkjTUc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=5TgOWT1aBNY:N41pFjkjTUc:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/5TgOWT1aBNY\/heartbreaking-look-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted-20160813\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/5TgOWT1aBNY\/heartbreaking-look-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted-20160813<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Heartbreaking Look At Why So Many Bisexual Men Remain Closeted &ldquo;I would never tell anyone,&rdquo;&nbsp;a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> participant in a recent study conducted by&nbsp;Columbia University&rsquo;s Mailman School of Public Health. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll go to my grave with this.&rdquo; The study, which was released earlier this summer, looked at roughly 200 closeted <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> with wives or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-heartbreaking-look-at-why-so-many-bisexual-men-remain-closeted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Heartbreaking Look At Why So Many Bisexual Men Remain Closeted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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