New rearch explor the benefs of iendship between gay and straight men.
Contents:
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
- LIFPAN OF A GAY IEND
- YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
- HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
- CAN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN REALLY BE FRIENDS?
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
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 * lifespan of gay friend 21 22 *
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How Long Do Homosexuals Live?
LIFPAN OF A GAY IEND
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.
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YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
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? LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.
HOW TO MAKE GAY FRIENDS: AN LBGT FRIENDSHIP GUI
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.
CAN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN REALLY BE FRIENDS?
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. Mollg the impact of HIV disease on mortaly gay men.