Gay life expectancy revised | Internatnal Journal of Epimlogy | Oxford Amic

Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
• YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY REVISED
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH

Further, as relied on registered same-genr domtic partnership stat to intify gay and bisexual men, the earlier study did not acunt for the possible health benefs of livg wh a partner27 and th may have unrtimated mortaly risk for MSM general. Th, timat om men livg admistratively documented partnerships likely reprent only a small segment of the gay and bisexual male one of the first natnal health data sets the Uned Stat to measure markers of sexual orientatn routely, the Natnal Health and Nutrn Examatn Survey s third eratn (NHANES III; 1988–1994) ially began s asssment of sexual orientatn wh a rtricted set of qutns pertag to lifetime histori of the genrs of rponnts’ sexual partners. Although suici-related aths were relatively rare the NHANES III sample (n =18), if they occurred among homosexually experienced men at the same rate reported the recent study of Danish men registered domtic partnerships, 24 would have been tectable the current study.

Routely llectg rmatn on markers of sexual orientatn health surveys likewise will facilate trackg the health of people wh mory sexual orientatn and will rce the impact of modifiable health threats that may be elevated among gay and bisexual men. [3] The liberal Southern Poverty Law Centre dubbed Cameron an "anti-gay extremist", and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn expelled him for exposg the tth about the homosexual liftyle and acced him of scientific data "d".

Another 1997 study om pro-homosexual rearchers who were tryg fend homosexuals, examed data of AIDS aths between 1987 to 1992 Toronto, and found that the life expectancy for the homosexual men was 8 to 20 years lower than heterosexuals.

YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER

To plement this rearch I took a different approach: I examed 6, 089 obuari of homosexual men om four homosexual magaz: The Bay Area Reporter, the Washgton Bla, the New York Bla and This Week, published between 1980 to 2014 clive.

The rat of ath of homosexual men om ncer, heart disease, stroke and diabet are all signifintly lower than those of the general populatn, bee homosexuals simply do not live long enough to die om them at greater rat. Four ntemporary databas were ed to tt that timate: (1) obuari the homosexual prs om 1993 through 1997 reflected treatment succs for those wh AIDS but suggted a median age of ath ls than 50 years; (2) two large random sexualy surveys 1994--one the USA and the other Bra--yield rults nsistent wh a median age of ath for homosexuals of ls than 50 years; (3) the median age of those ever married Denmark, Swen, and Norway was about 50 years, while that of the ever homosexually partnered was about 40 yr; further, the married were about 5 tim more apt to be old and 4 tim ls apt to be widowed young; and (4) traveno dg abers and homosexuals takg HIV tts Colorado had almost intil age distributns.

The specific blogil mechanisms that unrp how people velop as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng or queer (LGBTQ) are still undisvered, but what many rearchers have termed is that neher sexual/affectnal orientatn nor genr inty is a choice. “For LGBTQI+ persons” — referrg to dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, ally, pansexual/polysexual or two-spired — “the unique inty surrounds not only who they bond wh and are attracted to, but very often also their own genr inty and exprsn. “Beg LGBTQ school requir ntuo negotiatns between thenticy, nnectn, safety and health, ” explas Colton Brown, a member of the Associatn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Issu Counselg (ALGBTIC), a divisn of ACA.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

WASHINGTON, DC, June 6, 2005 () – A new study which analyzed tens of thoands of gay obuari and pared them wh AIDS aths data om the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has shown that the life expectancy for homosexuals is about twenty years shorter than that of the general public. The Vanuver study was nducted by a team of pro-gay rearchers, who, upon fdg that pro-fay advot were g the rults of their rearch as nfirmatn for their beliefs about the risks of the homosexual liftyle, issued a statement tryg to curb this untend after-effect.

GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY REVISED

“The aim of our work, ” said the rearch team, “was to assist health planners wh the means of timatg the impact of HIV fectn on groups, like gay and bisexual men, not necsarily ptured by val statistics data and not to hr the rights of the groups worldwi. Dpe their attempts to downplay the practil nsequenc of their rearch, is difficult to ignore that the study nclud wh the statement that “unr even the most liberal assumptns, gay and bisexual men this urban centre [Vanuver, BC] are now experiencg a life expectancy siar to that experienced by all men Canada the year 1871. Physician Says Science of Medil Consequenc of Homosexual Behavur is Beg Tmped by Polil AgendaThe Negative Health Effects of HomosexualySame-Sex ‘Marriage’ a Health Risk Doctors Warn ParliamentariansDoctors Say Legalizg Same-Sex Marriage Will Give False Imprsn Gay Sex is SafeJJ.

Over the past few months we have learnt of a number of reports regardg a paper we published the Internatnal Journal of Epimlogy on the gay and bisexual life expectancy Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s. The homophobic groups appear more terted rtrictg the human rights of gay and bisexuals rather than promotg their health and well aim of our rearch was never to spread more homophobia, but to monstrate to an ternatnal dience how the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men n be timated om limed val statistics data. Gay and bisexual men are clud the nstctn of official populatn-based tabl and therefore the tabl for all mal are the appropriate on to be summary, the aim of our work was to assist health planners wh the means of timatg the impact of HIV fectn on groups, like gay and bisexual men, not necsarily ptured by val statistics data and not to hr the rights of the groups worldwi.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

"Wh signifint vtment medil rourc, homosexuals are livg longer than prev years wh their promised health stat, but neverthels still shorter liv than parable married heterosexuals who don’t eat up medil rourc to the same extent, " Marshall wrote. This booklet provis rmatn om physicians, unselors, social workers, psychologists, legal experts, and tors who are knowledgeable about the velopment of sexual orientatn youth and the issu raised by sexual orientatn nversn therapy and ex-gay mistry. 4 Bee their legimate fear of beg harassed or hurt may rce the willgns of lbian, gay and bisexual youths to ask for help, is important that their school environments be open and acceptg so the young people will feel fortable sharg their thoughts and ncerns, cludg the optn of disclosg their sexual orientatn to others.

Th, the ia that homosexualy is a mental disorr or that the emergence of same-sex attractn and orientatn among some adolcents is any way abnormal or mentally unhealthy has no support among any mastream health and mental health profsnal anizatns. Dpe the general nsens of major medil, health, and mental health profsns that both heterosexualy and homosexualy are normal exprsns of human sexualy, efforts to change sexual orientatn through therapy have been adopted by some polil and relig anizatns and aggrsively promoted to the public.

However, such efforts have ser potential to harm young people bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth is a mental illns or disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, the Amerin Counselg Associatn, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, the Amerin School Counselor Associatn, the Natnal Associatn of School Psychologists and the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers together, reprentg more than 480, 000 mental health profsnals, have all taken the posn that homosexualy is not a mental disorr and th is not somethg that needs to or n be “cured.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The Amerin Counselg Associatn adopted a rolutn 1998 statg that oppos portrayals of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth and adults as mentally ill due to their sexual orientatn; and supports the dissematn of accurate rmatn about sexual orientatn, mental health, and appropriate terventns orr to unteract bias that is based on ignorance or unfound beliefs about same-genr sexual orientatn. The potential risks of reparative therapy are great, cludg prsn, anxiety and self-stctive behavr, sce therapist alignment wh societal prejudic agast homosexualy may rerce self-hatred already experienced by the patient. Therefore, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn oppos any psychiatric treatment, such as reparative or nversn therapy which is based upon the assumptn that homosexualy per se is a mental disorr or based upon the a prri assumptn that the patient should change his/her sexual homosexual orientatn.