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Thanks for the heads up, lj, I missed this one.

There are other very suspect statistics in this piece: for example, the claim that the average homosexual man dies at 42 years.

I believe you are referring to Cameron's 1994 study, which was supported by the International Journal of Epidemiology here: Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men

Cameron's 2005 study: Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).

From here:

The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major gay paper used to track gay obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for gays at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th centiles of deaths.

Informed folks know that the homosexual lifestyle is anything but healthy. Checkout my profile for pointers to years of articles on the health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle.

I believe you are referring to Cameron's 1994 study, which was supported by the International Journal of Epidemiology here: Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men

No, this does not support Cameron. Cameron claimed that the average homosexual male dies at age 42 even if AIDS is not the cause of death, and that the average homosexual male dies at age 39 if AIDS is included. The article you have linked to indicates: "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." (It also indicates that these numbers are based on statistics collected between 1987 and 1992.) These numbers are at least 12 years more than Cameron's numbers.

Please note I am not arguing that homosexuality is healthy. It certainly is not: the epidemiologists have made that very plain. My concern here is that we should not rely on Cameron. It makes us look bad.