Short lifespan of gay men?
In spite of the lies told by the homophobic so-called "Christians," gay people live just as long as "straight" (heterosexuals)."
The person, who invented the devilish idea thought up by the devil himself, got his statistics from gay publications of the 1980s and early 1990s where the obituaries of those who died with HIV/AIDS symptomatic diseases were listed.
I will be 62 years old in November and I know lots of openly gay men who are in their 70s.
While my late partner/husband, Ed Pursell, was HIV positive, the viral brain infection he had, PML for short, had no connection with the HIV, according to his neurosurgeon doctor. PML is a virus which one can get into his immune system while he is a child and it lie dormant as long as the person is healthy and not under stress.
Ed had been HIV postive since 1981 (but he did not know it until 1990) and I moved in with him in 1984. We did not adopt safer sex practices until two years later. I have never had HIV at all and I get tested to reassure others by setting an example that they need to do it do.
Ed died in 1991 and he would have been 62 just a few months later. We had been together almost 7 years.
I do not have any diseases which anyone else could catch. And according to my primary doctor at the local VA Out Patient Clinic, I have a very healthy immune system.
I do have some disabilities such as arthritis, and I am permanently disabled due to suffering a head trauma when a person decided that he wanted to kill me by coming up behind me and hitting me in the sides of and the back of my head several times.
When I describe the complete situation behind that to an openly gay person, he often considers me to be a victim of gay-bashing. The guy who did it did and still hates gays. That happened in Aug. 1993.
So, since I have an otherwise healthy immune system, I think that I should be able to live as long as my father, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did. All of them lived past 83 years of age. Two of them lived to be 88 and one over 90. All of them were Christians, too.