What's the average lifespan of a gay man vs. straight?
Anyone?
Lately, drug cocktails are helping to extend the lifespan of homosexuals...
Somehow that advice causes their problems, rather than helping them.
AND it's our fault for saying it, rather than theirs for scoffing at it... You can't win with them, you can only lock them up for breaking the law occasionally.
Regarding the average lifespan of gay men, I believe it would be too short to provide their parents comfort in their old age. Something like late forties.
Cameron P, Cameron K, Playfair WL.
Family Research Institute, Colorado Springs, CO 80962, USA.
Previous estimates from obituaries and pre-1994 sex surveys suggested that the median age of death for homosexuals is less than 50 yr. Four contemporary databases were used to test that estimate: (1) obituaries in the homosexual press from 1993 through 1997 reflected treatment success for those with AIDS but suggested a median age of death less than 50 years; (2) two large random sexuality surveys in 1994--one in the USA and the other in Britain--yielded results consistent with a median age of death for homosexuals of less than 50 years; (3) the median age of those ever married in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway was about 50 years, while that of the ever homosexually partnered was about 40 yr; further, the married were about 5 times more apt to be old and 4 times less apt to be widowed young; and (4) intravenous drug abusers and homosexuals taking HIV tests in Colorado had almost identical age distributions. The four lines of evidence were consistent with previous findings suggesting that homosexual activity may be associated with a lifespan shortened by 20 to 30 years.
PMID: 9923159 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Good question, ask a gay activist. You'll get an immiediate resounding *silence*... It's the only surefire method of shutting them up when they are ranting on and on about how awesome the gay lifestyle is.
I hear it's 25 yrs less for gay men on avg.
Gays generally live into their mid 40s, straights into their mid 70s. Can't find the citation though... I did a research paper on this a while ago.
A 1997 International Journal of Epidemiology study of gay men in Vancouver, British Columbia found the average lifespan for gay men to be between 40 and 50 years old.
Is it any wonder why they recruit our young so actively. Amen.