Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health.
Contents:
- YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
- AMERIN SCIENTIST: GAYS DIE YOUNGER THAN SMOKERS
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
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 * gay men life expectancy *
"All homosexuals are aware that their lifpan is about 20 years ls than for normal people so voters should know that a homosexual print may not live to fish his term. Among men wh AIDS their lifpan was 39 years, however even whout AIDS a male homosexuals lifpan is jt a short 42 years. [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".
AMERIN SCIENTIST: GAYS DIE YOUNGER THAN SMOKERS
I personally examed thoands of obuari of gay men to support the claim that homosexualy is not a healthy liftyle. * gay men life expectancy *
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.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
* gay men life expectancy *
Hard evince is difficult to e by, but the data we do have suggts that homosexualy tends to shorten life by many years. 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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
A study by The Fay Rearch Instute says that marriage for gay men and lbians is more dangero than smokg. * gay men life expectancy *
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.
Sce the legalizatn of same-sex marriage Denmark, gays and lbians have seen mortaly rat cle. * gay men life expectancy *
In ntrast, if we were to repeat this analysis today the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men would be greatly improved. If timat of an dividual gay and bisexual man's risk of ath is tly need for legal or other purpos, then people makg the timat should e the same actuarial tabl that are ed for all other mal that populatn. 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.
Overall, we do not ndone the e of our rearch a manner that rtricts the polil or human rights of gay and bisexual men or any other group.