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ReviewAmerican journal of men's health2018

Developing Resilience: Gay Men's Response to Systemic Discrimination.

Ingrid Handlovsky, Vicky Bungay, John Oliffe, Joy Johnson

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Review in American journal of men's health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. The Gay Parental Turn: Canadian Gay Fathers and the Reorganization of Care and Community.Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2026
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  8. Resilience and Aging Among Black Gay and Bisexual Older Men.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  12. Racial/ethnic discrimination and tobacco and cannabis use outcomes among US adults.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023
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  16. Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Bears and Other Gay Men: A Descriptive Study from Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ingrid Handlovsky1 UBC School of Nursing, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Vicky Bungay1 UBC School of Nursing, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
John Oliffe1 UBC School of Nursing, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7645-1869
Joy Johnson2 Vice President Research, Simon Fraser Faculty of Health Sciences, Burnaby, BC, Canada.

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gay men experience marked health disparities compared to heterosexual men, associated with profound discrimination. Resilience as a concept has received growing attention to increase understanding about how gay men promote and protect their health in the presence of adversity. Missing in this literature are the perspectives and experiences of gay men over 40 years. This investigation, drawing on grounded theory methods, examined how gay men over 40 years of age develop resilience over the course of their lives to promote and protect their health. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 25 men ranging between 40 and 76 years of age who experienced an array of health concerns including depression, anxiety, suicidality, and HIV. Men actively resist discrimination via three interrelated protective processes that dynamically influence the development of resilience over their life course: (a) building and sustaining networks, (b) addressing mental health, and (c) advocating for respectful care encounters. Initiatives to promote and protect the health of gay men must be rooted in the recognition of the systemic role of discrimination, while supporting men's resilience in actively resisting discrimination.

Indexed as

Health Status DisparitiesQuality of LifeResilience, PsychologicalAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultAgedAge FactorsAnxietyCanadaDepressionDiscrimination, PsychologicalHomosexuality, MaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMental Healthgay health issuesgender issues and sexual orientationhealth-care issueshealth promotion and disease preventionhomophobiapsychosocial and cultural issuessocial determinants of health

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PMID29683025
PMCPMC6142121

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