Table 3.

Male Sexual Orientation Disparities in Lifetime Alcohol Use, Age of Onset, Past 30-day Alcohol Use, and Past 30-day Heavy Episodic Drinking, within Year

	1998		2003		2008		2013
	aORb	[95% CI]	aORb	[95% CI]	aORb	[95% CI]	aORb	[95% CI]
Lifetime Alcohol Usea
Mostly Hetero	1.09	[.83, 1.44]	.89	[.64, 1.25]	1.33	[1.06, 1.68]	1.24	[.99, 1.55]
Bisexual	.82	[.48, 1.39]	1.21	[.74, 1.97]	1.79	[1.10, 2.92]	1.26	[.85, 1.87]
Gay	1.22	[.65, 2.26]	.90	[.50, 1.61]	1.06	.63, 1.78]	1.19	[.78, 1.80]
Age of Onseta
Mostly Hetero	1.01	[.75, 1.36]	.83	[.54, 1.27]	1.21	[.91, 1.61]	1.35	[1.01, 1.81]
Bisexual	1.93	[1.08, 3.44]	1.40	[.71, 2.77]	1.86	[1.16, 3.00]	.95	[.54, 1.67]
Gay	1.76	[.96, 3.26]	.66	[.36, 1.18]	1.85	[1.05, 3.25]	2.38	[1.39, 4.05]
Past 30-Day Alcohol Usea
Mostly Hetero	1.20	[.94, 1.52]	.79	[.57, 1.09]	1.09	[.87, 1.37]	1.07	[.85, 1.34]
Bisexual	.98	[.59, 1.65]	.96	[.59, 1.55]	1.60	[1.05, 2.44]	1.28	[.87, 1.86]
Gay	1.36	[.73, 2.55]	.94	[.48, 1.83]	1.68	[1.00, 2.85]	1.56	[1.03, 2.35]
Past 30-Day HEDa
Mostly Hetero	1.06	[.80, 1.41]	.56	[.37, .86]	.92	[.72, 1.18]	.79	[.61, 1.02]
Bisexual	1.23	[.68, 2.22]	1.07	[.64, 1.78]	1.45	[.91, 2.31]	1.41	[.95, 2.08]
Gay	1.33	[.69, 2.58]	.66	[.32, 1.36]	1.39	[.80, 2.41]	1.42	[.88, 2.30]

Note. Data were weighted. Odds ratios in bold indicate p < .05. Mostly Hetero = Mostly Heterosexual.

^aHeterosexual is reference group

^bAdjusted for age