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 bisexu
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GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
* lifespan of a gay man *
How Long Do Homosexuals Live? Do those volved homosexualy live as long on average as non-homosexuals? Hard evince is difficult to e by, but the data we do have suggts that homosexualy tends to shorten life by many years.
Homosexual journals, pared to obuari om 2 mastream newspapers. Homosexual Mal, AIDS Deaths.
Homosexual Mal, Non-AIDS Deaths. Ever homosexually-partnered (561 gays, 91 lbians). Ever Homosexually Partnered Men.
YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
A gui for unrstandg the natural progrsn of every gay man's life. * lifespan of a gay man *
Ever Homosexually Partnered Women. Cameron P, Playfair WL, & Wellum S (1994) The longevy of homosexuals: before and after the AIDS epimic. Cameron P, Cameron K (2007) Feral distortn of homosexual footprt (ignorg early gay ath?
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. 1 From the reports appears that our rearch is beg ed by select groups US2 and Fland3 to suggt that gay and bisexual men live an unhealthy liftyle that is stctive to themselv and to others. 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.
In our paper, we monstrated that a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 21 years ls than for all men. If the same pattern of mortaly ntued, we timated that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years would not reach their 65th birthday. Unr even the most liberal assumptns, gay and bisexual men this urban centre were experiencg a life expectancy siar to that experienced by men Canada the year 1871.