Alcoholism is the granddaddy of gay health problems. It may have little of the urgency or newsworthiness of crystal meth, say, or HIV, but it remains one of our community’s (and nation’s) most insidious and intractable destroyers. While there’s nothing about homosexuality that predisposes a gay man to alcoholism, the centrality of the gay bar to both coming out and going out has long given liquor a presence in gay society and sex that can’t help but be harmful.
Gay bars can’t turn someone who is not an alcoholic into one. But by dint of being our de facto community centers, gay bars do deliver gay men who are alcoholics over to the clutches of the disease at an earlier age—and with a kind of assembly-line efficiency. Their omnipresent influence and temptations also make recovery from alcoholism more difficult for gay men.
Barring a new gay Prohibition or the discovery of the alcoholism gene, the battle with the bottle is bound to remain an iffy “one day at a time” prospect for gay alcoholics. And “Sober Gays” are likely to maintain their statistical dominance in annual gay pride marches nationwide, marching quietly in blocklong contingents as they have for decades.
TE=“village robot, post: 141398, member: 1762”]I would advice that y’all read the post by @Riakanau - The Degeneration Of Society before feeding this troll. Thank You
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That’s very true… let’s not give this gay mileage!