I Bet You Never Heard This

I do not care about people's sexual proclivities. In almost all day-to-day interactions with other people, it's not even an issue that comes up. I think the promotion of homosexuality is really weird, though. If heterosexuality were heavily advertised and promoted by corporations and governments I would think that's weird too. There's a sort of industry around trying to shape beliefs on this or that subject to put the public's beliefs in alignment with XXXX? Some mystery group seems to push the overall cultish agenda.

Anyway, I never heard that homosexuality severely reduces life expectency--by 20 or 30 years. A number of statistical surveys report this same data. Here's just one: (link)

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.

I don't really have any interpretation of that information. I think it's interesting that it's not more widely known.