(February 24, 2014 at 10:34 am)TaraJo Wrote: Ok, that's true, it's not exactly a causal relationship going on, but there does seem to be a correlation. Which is a subtle difference, but it's there.Here ya go:
Anyway, I wonder what this will do to fundamentalist religious zealots who claim GLBT people have shorter life spans (a claim I haven't seen proven in any way, shape or form) and claim that's proof that their behavior is unnatural and unhealthy?
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/26...f_ipsecsha
Quote:CONCLUSION: In a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th birthday. Under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871.
You don't see more such studies because it's politically incorrect to do them. The publication above later issued an apology of sorts:
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30...full#ref-1
