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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- YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
- AMERIN SCIENTIST: GAYS DIE YOUNGER THAN SMOKERS
- WILLIAM BENT, GAYS, AND THE TTH
YET ANOTHER STUDY CONFIRMS GAY LIFE EXPECTANCY 20 YEARS SHORTER
I personally examed thoands of obuari of gay men to support the claim that homosexualy is not a healthy liftyle. * average gay life span *
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.
AMERIN SCIENTIST: GAYS DIE YOUNGER THAN SMOKERS
* average gay life span *
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? 1 Ined, timat suggt that 9% to 27% of gay and bisexual men and MSM the Uned Stat are currently livg wh HIV fectn.
11 In addn, populatn-based surveys over the last have nsistently documented elevated risk for suici attempts among gay and bisexual men pared wh heterosexual men. 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. Although most gay-intified men report lifetime same-genr sexual experienc, this is not te of men who intify as bisexual.
WILLIAM BENT, GAYS, AND THE TTH
25 This discrepancy impli that generalizg fdgs om the current study to gay and bisexual-intified men, general, should be done wh some utn. For example, several recent studi have reported higher rat of tobac e among gay and bisexual men than among heterosexual men. 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.