Disparities: Illness More Prevalent Among Older Gay Adults

New York Times ^ | April 1, 2011 | RONI CARYN RABIN

[stompk]

i don't call them filthy disease ridden queers for nothing...

doesn't it feel good when time and science prove you right?

[Recovering_Democrat]

The media portray older gay men as happy, wise, healthy and successful. An illusion.

[boop]

I don’t know if they’ve changed the name, but there is a condition known as gay bowel disease. Long before the AIDS epidemic. Also gays have a much higher propensity to smoke and do drugs and drink than the general population. So that may have something to do with this disparity. I find it interesting that my gay patients are no older than 50. I don’t think I’ve treated a 70 plus year old homosexual. At least not that they told me. Plus they were in their “prime” in the 1950s. NOT a cool time to be gay, so they probably were very discrete with their affairs. Mr.Sulu, yes. Has had a lover for decades. Not HIV positive. Robert Reed from Brady Bunch, not so much. He was the quintessential “ho” for gay sex and was extremely careless. In fact, he would pick up hustlers on the street, then threaten to kill them if they told anyone about “Mr.Brady”.

[Flag_This]

It sounds like homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking.

[dfwgator]

It sounds like homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking.

I thought homosexuals smoked....albeit not cigarettes.

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

That’s what happens when you spend your recreational time playing in a toxic waste canal.

[Pollster1]

Older lesbian, gay and bisexual adults . . . are less likely to have . . . adult children who can help care for them.

I'm impressed with the researcher who thought to even investigate this question. Now we have to figure out why our society discriminates against gays by providing fewer children who will care for them in their old age - more research is needed.

[stompk]

Older lesbian, gay and bisexual adults . . . are less likely to have . . . adult children who can help care for them.

in the next report, this will be used as evidence for why they should be allowed to adopt.

[Yet_Again]

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

- Romans 1:26-27

Truth is truth, regardless of what the gay lobby would have you believe.

[blueunicorn6]

Party hard when you’re young, and let the tightwad homophobes pay for you when you get old. Nice plan.

[massmike]

-It sounds like homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking.-

The Canadian Medical Association Journal (Jan. 11, 2000) said, “Among young gay and bisexual men in Vancouver, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has reduced life expectancy by up to 20 years.”

According to the New England Journal of Medicine (Feb. 12, 1998), smoking, on the other hand, reduces your life expectancy “7.3 years for men and 6.0 years for women.”

Read more: Gays’ respect and tolerance http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=59817#ixzz1IKNBB0AT

[Chode]

sadly, no... but thx, i get your point

[Morpheus2009]

Well, also put in mind that smoking, alcoholism, and use of hard drugs is disproportionately high among gays as well, sadly enough.

[Morpheus2009]

The media portray older gay men as happy, wise, healthy and successful. An illusion.

Elton John hasn’t sounded all that happy to me in his recent statements.

[massmike]

>Mental issues? These sex deviates now have “mental issues”?<

Mental health issues 3x greater for homosexuality

http://www.mygenes.co.nz/whiteheadcomorbid10_2.pdf