Drug & Alcohol Addiction For Homeless/Gay Men!

March 03-2007:
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Drug & Alcoholic Addiction For Young/Homeless Gay Men!

Historically, many Gay men have had a history of alcohol, drugs, and other substance usage. It is triggered primarily from the social, societal, home pressures or abuses (verbal and physical), the inability to feel needed, and wanted for who they are, etc.

And have caused many Gay men to visit the Bars on weekends and get wasted mostly. It is also the place where you will find several Out Gay Men, your age, willing and ready to sleep with you, especially when intoxicated. Enjoy each other's company for the few hours there, and feel a sense of belonging. Even though this comraderie is fleeting, and sometimes even dangerous. It is what most young and not so young Gay men depend upon as their social life, or for socializing with other Gay men.

For those Gay men young and older, who do not drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, do reefers or marijuana, or shoot up drugs. These places are a No-No for them. And they very often have a problem in finding suitable places to hang out, that caters to Gay men period. Much less those who are clean, use no drugs, and is not Christian, or practicing any religious belief. Staying drug free is not easy from most young Gay men. Especially those from another state of city, the homeless, the sexually abused, and the runaways.

Some of these young Gay men never had a good primary education, and most did not stay in school long enough to graduate with a High School Diploma, or GED certificate. Prostitution is what most of them who are homeless do to survive from day to day. Some are killed, raped, introduced to Escorting for a living, get hooked up with a Pimp, or becomes a Sex Slave until arrested, imprisoned, or end up dead. Gay life for most of these men and women are a day to day drama. Fights, shop-lifting, selling Rocks/Crack, or stealing to eat or shoot up, is what they do to survive.

Most of these young Gay men and women will never be able to have, enjoy, or commit themselves to any meaningful relationship with anyone, after living on the streets for a long time. Or even indulging in prostitution, drug use, or being imprisoned intermittently for several years or months. The psychological and mental damage to these youngsters is for life. And no amount of counseling will eradicate these demons totally. Many see themselves as fierce Queens, who is living for the moment while they are still young, appealing, or attractive. The future is never seriously contemplated on by most of these men and women.

This phenomena is endemic in the Inner cities, and poor neighborhoods. Especially in communities where rampant poverty, destitution, and language barriers exist. The inability to meander the health, and social facilities that are available to them. And the stigma that homelessness, Gay, Lesbian, Tansgender, and Homeless people have to deal with on a daily basis, is the principal barriers that inhibit them from seeking meaningful help and assistance.
Derryck S. Griffith.
Educator-Advocate & Blogger.
PS: Be very careful with whom you drink, eat, sleep, or have sex with.
At all times!