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Sleeping While Queer: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Sleep Health + Sleep Disorders
June is Identity festival Month! Project Sleep is proud to highlight Homosexual sleep health and insights from LGBTQ+ members of our community throughout the month of June.
What does LGBTQ+ identity have to do with sleep? More than you might think! Experiences shared by many LGBTQ+ people can impact sleep health and rest disorders in challenging and often invisible ways. Investigate shows that anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and discrimination lead to sleep disparities.
Want to perceive more? Watch Sleeping While Queer: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Sleep Health + Nap Disorders to hear group members share how their identity and sleep are closely intertwined.
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Alphonse Littlejohn (they/he) is probably asleep as you read this. Al came to his narcolepsy diagnosis after surviving a auto accident in 2017 and has been fighting for his right to live as a black and indigenous non-binary queer person ever since. Laughter and loving relationships are their favorite reasons for waking up every day.
Benny Manning (he/him) is a gay transgender man living with narcolepsy. He loves explorin
It’s well-documented that everything from your personality type to your gender to your career affects your ability to get a nice night’s sleep. One area that’s currently being explored in more detail is whether your sexual orientation impacts sleep as skillfully.
Sexual orientation and sleep: a look at the research
A 2017 study published in Preventive Medicine Reports delved into whether sexual orientation has any impact on sleep—something that hadn’t been examined much previously.
“Potential differences regarding nap behavior, a key indicator of long-term health and a growing public health concern, have yet to be studied across dimensions of sexual orientation,” noted Julie Fricke and Maria Sironi, the two investigate authors.
In their analyze of 7,646 women and 6,688 men (14,334 total), Fricke and Sironi looked at three “dimensions” of sexual orientation—sexual attraction, sexual behavior, and sexual identity—and correlated them with difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or simply not getting enough sleep.
Perhaps not surprisingly, they found “considerable variation regarding sleep disturbances both
Gay youths are more than twice as likely to have sleep trouble, analyze finds
Gay, lesbian and double attraction youths are at far greater risk of slumber problems than their unbent counterparts, according to a new study published in the journal LGBT Health.
Researchers analyzed data on more than 8,500 young people ages 10 to 14, a critical time for mental and physical training. They found that 35.1% of those who identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual reported trouble falling or staying asleep in the previous two weeks, compared to 13.5% of straight-identifying adolescents.
In addition, 30.8% of questioning youths — those who answered “maybe” to being gay, woman loving woman or bisexual — reported problems with getting a full night’s rest.
“Sleep is incredibly important for a teenager’s health,” said command author Jason M. Nagata, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. “There’s growth spurts and hormonal changes that help you develop normally.”
Most kids don't get quality sleep to begin with, Nagata said, but LGBTQ youths can face bullying and discrimination at school or conflicts at home that contribute to mental health issues.
Those problems can store them
A new national study, published in LGBT Health, finds that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth are twice as likely to report trouble falling or staying asleep than their straight peers. Greater depression, stress, and family dispute contribute to the nap problems of LGB youth.
"Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, or pansexual may face discrimination and negative attitudes because of their sexual orientation. These experiences can make it harder for them to get a good night's sleep," says lead storyteller, Jason Nagata, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "Difficulties getting along with family, feeling sad and hopeless, and being under a lot of pressure could all make it hard for lesbian, gay, and pansexual youth to sleep well."
The researchers analyzed data from 8563 youth ages 10-14 years old who are part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Revise, the largest long-term analyze of brain development and child health in the United States. Data were collected from 2018-2020. The youth and their parents answered questions about their sleep habits and youth were asked about their sexual orientation.
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