Discrimination impacts mental health in terrible, terrible ways. |
On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems. |
What I have come to understand from our study is that there is a double problem. |
When society denies them their deep-seated need to marry, it only makes them part citizen. The result is diminished hope, diminished dreams and diminished abilities to imagine a future of success. |