Although there is not a proven direct link between meth use and HIV, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, a health and resource center for the gay community, reports data collected from their patients that gay men who had used meth within the previous 12 months were five times more likely to test positive for HIV than those who did not use meth.
The American Family Association must address Bryan Fischer's hateful comments Concerned Women for America - endorsing hateful anti-gay comics and bad data The Family Research Council should be apologizing to the gay community.
"We don't know," and won't know, she says, until there is equivalent data on gay men who become parents.
Data on gay and lesbian consumers are difficult to obtain, in part because of a reluctance among some to identify themselves to researchers.
But N.Y.U.'s Egan says that while that idea makes intuitive sense, when he's studied the social-desirability bias, he's "found no support for it in polling data" on gay marriage.
WASHINGTON — The federal government should systematically collect demographic data on gay, lesbian and transgender people and should conduct biomedical research to understand why they are more likely to have certain chronic conditions, the National Academy of Sciences said Thursday.
"I just deleted all my online data on gay dating websites and applications like Grindr.
We need more research that specifically looks at bisexuals compared with lesbian and gay participants, but the data we do have is shocking.
WASHINGTON -- It's become a political truism to say that there is a generational divide with respect to gay rights, as polling data bears out the fact that younger voters, even conservatives, are far more in favor of same-sex marriage than their elders.
The fact that I am African-American makes it even more intriguing, given that the Kinsey Reports of 1948 omitted black males from their famous survey of American homosexuals, probably because at that time, there was not enough data on gay African-American men to include them as a group.
Self-reported data from gay community periodic surveys indicates the majority of HIV negative and HIV positive men attended their regular general practitioner (GP) for their last syphilis test [ 7].
