Average lifespan of a gay man
On the Margins
Twelve years. That’s the average number of years of life prematurely taken from LGBTQ individuals who dwell in communities that harbor strong prejudices against members of sexual and gender minorities. The emphasize of living in an environment marked by stigma and structural discrimination can result in first deaths from suicide, from an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and from a cascade of other life-shortening health conditions.
These findings were highlighted in a 2016 statement by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, announcing that the National Institutes of Health was designating “sexual and gender minorities” as a disparities population. This designation served as a notification that the NIH recognized the health inequities affecting the LGBTQ community—and the need to address them.
The problems start early in life. Across the nation, lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, and trans person youth have an elevated risk of bullying, suicide, and substance use disorder and lack access to culturally sensitive and clinically specific LGBT health take care, according to a 2017 review of the literature published
Life expectancy now considerably exceeds the average in some people with HIV in the US
A study from the US has found that some groups of people with HIV, especially those treated before their CD4 tally falls below 350 cells/mm3, now have life expectancies equal to or even higher than the US general population.
However, it also finds that life expectancy for some other groups – most notably women and non-white people – is still considerably below comparable members of the general population and that for people who inject drugs, life expectancy in the era of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has not improved at all.
A second study, which looked at death rates among both HIV-positive and HIV-negative members of two cohorts of people with or at risk of HIV, has found that the death rate from non-AIDS-defining illnesses among people with HIV who started ART above the 350 cells/mm3 threshold was not, and never has been, any higher than among comparable HIV-negative people.
Glossary
AIDS defining condition
Any HIV-related illness included in the list of diagnostic criteria for AIDS, which in the presence of HIV infection result in an AIDS diagnosis. They include opportunisti
Arizona Republican believes gay people die at 42 because homosexuality is “harmful”
A former Arizona state senator believes that homosexuality is so “harmful” that gay men have an average lifespan of 42.
Ron Gould was a member of the Senate from 2005 to 2013. After reaching his term limit, he tried unsuccessfully to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. He currently serves as Mohave County Supervisor.
In an interview with the Kingman Daily Miner, Gould claimed that gay men have an average age of 42 and believes that gay men pass away younger because of their sexual orientation, saying “That’s why they die.”
“We all have our sins, but we should try to suppress them,” he said. “Alcoholism is harmful, too, but we don’t spot groups promoting alcoholism.”
Gould previously sponsored a ban on same-sex marriage while serving in the state senate, and during the interview said that although same-sex attracted people have civil rights, that doesn’t include marriage.
“It used to be ‘tolerate us,’; now it’s ‘accept us,’” he said.
Gould made a number of eye-raising comments in the interview, including denying the living of climate chan
William Bennett, Gays, and the Truth
“This is tough news. It’s not pleasant to hear,” said former Education Secretary William Bennett on ABC’s This Week Nov. 9. “But it’s very important, and it’s part of telling the truth.” The occasion for tough-but-needed truth telling: Bill Clinton’s first-ever presidential speech to an organized gay-rights group, the Human Rights Campaign. Clinton had conferred respectability–wrongly–on the gay quest for approval when in fact, said Bennett, he “should tell the reality on this one”: Homosexuality “takes 30 years off your life.” The average life expectancy for gay men, Bennett declared, was just 43.
Many a mother’s heart around the country must own sunk at that moment amid premonitions that she would outlive her son. A well-known widespread figure would contemplate twice before delivering tidings that grim, right? And Bennett’s statistic was no slip. Only days later, in the Nov. 24 Weekly Standard, he repeated the assertion phrased for maximum emphasis:
“The best available investigate suggests that the average life span of male homosexuals is around 43 years of age. Forty-three.” (Italics his.)
Yes, it’s a sensational, arresting number, which may