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Tory MP Nadine Dorries: 'The gay marriage bill is taking the sex out of marriage'
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Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather tells Catholic newspaper 'I never went into politics to tackle equal marriage'
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Tory MP David Burrowes: 'I'm not anti-gay; I'm just pro-marriage'
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Christians called to pray at Parliament in opposition to equal marriage bill
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Whatever next “bears sh*t in the woods” by taxpayer funded study?
Since the survey only covered Massachusetts residents, it’s a bit heroic to claim that gay men generally are thinner and that lesbians tend more to be obese. It may not hold true for the US as a whole, but we certainly can’t draw any conclusions from this about the situation in the UK.
Are we SERIOUSLY being compared to a group of car-buyers??!! Instead of ‘gay people need a specific, tailored message’, how about looking at the reasons behind these figures, what is the cause of such a high proportion of overweight lesbian women? For example, could it be linked with emotional anxieties associated with their sexuality?
And I’m sorry, we’re fat, but we’re happy with that? Wrong. Very wrong.
Delighted at the news! According to this research I’ve just lost two stone :)
Tell that to my fat ass…
So whats the reccommendation, stop the gay men smoking so they will put on weight.
And you leave bears alone, I happen to like them, a lot.
As someone currently trying to squeeze 36 inches of waist into 34 inches of Levis waistband I’m wishing this was a genuine law of nature. Anyone for muffins?
Sometimes it really is hard to dredge up even a flicker of interest in the results of yet another misguidedly-funded ‘study’. Christ, have people really got nothing more interesting to think about?
Actually the research is better and more interesting than the report suggests, and is based on information from about two thousand people:
| Conron, K. J., Mimiaga, M. J. & Landers, S. J.
| A population-based study of sexual orientation
| identity and gender differences in adult health.
| Am J Public Health AJPH.2009.174169+ (2010).
| URL http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2009.174169.
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| Objectives. We provide estimates of several leading
| US adult health indicators by sexual orientation
| identity and gender to fill gaps in the current
| literature.
|
| Methods. We aggregated data from the 2001–2008
| Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
| surveys (N=67359) to examine patterns in
| self-reported identity and gender, using
| multivariable logistic regression.
|
| Results. Compared with heterosexuals, sexual
| minorities (i.e., gays/lesbians, 2% of sample;
| bisexuals, 1%) were more likely to report activity
| limitation, tension or worry, smoking, drug use,
| asthma, lifetime sexual victimization, and HIV
| testing, but did not differ on 3-year Papanicolaou
| tests, lifetime mammography, diabetes, or heart
| disease. Compared with heterosexuals, bisexuals
| reported more barriers to health care, current
| sadness, past-year suicidal ideation, and
| cardiovascular disease risk. Gay men were less
| likely to be overweight or obese and to obtain
| prostate-specific antigen tests, and lesbians were
| more likely to be obese and to report multiple
| risks for cardiovascular disease. Binge drinking
| and lifetime physical intimate partner
| victimization were more common among bisexual
| women.
|
| Conclusions. Sexual orientation disparities in
| chronic disease risk, victimization, health care
| access, mental health, and smoking merit increased
| attention. More research on heterogeneity in health
| and health determinants among sexual minorities is
| needed.
The news story of course completely messes up by misreporting the results in the manner “X people are thinner” instead of “fewer X people are obese”, which obscures probable variations amongst “X people” that lead to the differences. Such as, perhaps, some ultra body conscious gay men, or PCOS or transgenderism amongst those listed as lesbian. And then it invisibilises the findings on bisexual women.
Thanks very much oatc – it is vitally important that research is done to demonstrate the different health needs of LGBT people (this research does not seem to have covered trans people).
As you say, the story is not a good report of this research.
Interesting. I think its all down to the fact we eat meat but don’t swallow… though I would if asked nicely!
but … no1 cares
but now i feel fat
And what about Bi peoiple?!
Carmen: “And what about Bi people?!
They just stick to the semi-skimmed, apparently. ;)