Table 2.

Alcohol outcomes by sexual orientation within race/ethnicity among male respondents in three waves of the National Alcohol Survey (2000–2010)

Variable	Exclusively heterosexuala M (SD)	Behaviorally discordant heterosexualb M (SD)	Gay/bisexual M (SD)
White men Lifetime dependence symptoms	1.19 (1.98)	1.34 (1.99)	1.46 (2.05)**
Lifetime drinking-related consequences	1.28 (2.83)	1.48 (2.79)†	1.33 (2.37)
Past-year hazardous drinking symptomsc	1.25 (1.67)	1.15 (1.61)	1.41 (1.85)
Black men
Lifetime dependence symptoms	0.98 (2.21)	1.59 (4.84)**	1.33 (2.38)**
Lifetime drinking-related consequences	0.98 (2.69)	1.84 (6.01)**	1.38 (2.95)**
Past-year hazardous drinking symptomsc	1.21 (1.89)	1.26 (2.05)	1.14 (1.91)
Latino men Lifetime dependence symptoms	1.36 (2.63)	1.22 (2.05)	0.86 (1.28)**
Lifetime drinking-related consequences	1.39 (3.70)	1.05 (2.06)*	0.76 (1.38)**
Past-year hazardous drinking symptomsc	1.51 (2.08)	1.07 (1.55)*	0.92 (1.49)**

^aHeterosexual self-identity and only female sex partners;

^bheterosexual self-identity and reporting male sex partners

^camong subset of current drinkers (n = 5,822).

^†Marginally significantly different from exclusively heterosexual group at p < .10;

^*significantly different from exclusively heterosexual group atp < .05;

^**significantly different from exclusively heterosexual group at p < .01.