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Monday, June 16
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Source: Guardian , HealthDay via Washington Post , Bloomberg Gay men and straight women share brain characteristics that suggest sexual preferences may be innate rather than learned, researchers said. Lesbians and heterosexual men also had similar brain tendencies. Scientists at the prestigious Stockholm Brain Institute in Sweden, who conducted the research, say MRI and PET reveal homosexual men and heterosexual women have symmetrical brains, with the right and left hemispheres almost exactly the same size. Conversely, lesbians and straight men have asymmetrical brains, with the right hemisphere...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Financial Post , Exchange Morning Post A new study confirms what savvy marketers have known for years: the gay community has major wallet clout and represents vast potential growth for marketers. That's especially true in Canada according to the study commissioned by the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) where the study concludes The LGBT population in Canada is 2 million people, representing a market of about 100 billion Canadian dollars. The study describes it as a varied population which has a great purchasing power. It found that LGBT consumers are faithful...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Medical News Today The odds of substance use for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth are on average 190 percent higher than for heterosexual youth, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers published in the current issue of Addiction. What's more, for some sub-populations of LGB youth, the odds were substantially higher, including 340 percent for bisexual youth and 400 percent for lesbians, researchers found. "Homophobia, discrimination and victimization are largely what are responsible for these substance use disparities in young gay people," said Michael...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Washington Blade , New York Times , Associated Press via Yahoo News ATLANTA -- After reaching its deathbed at the turn of the century, syphilis is once again a “significant burden” in the U.S., with gay and bisexual men making up the majority of domestic syphilis cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. U.S. syphilis cases climbed for the seventh straight year in 2007, and increases in the disease among gay men and blacks largely contributed, government researchers reported at a conference last week. Screening for sexually transmitted infections is a critical...
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Monday, March 03
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Source: San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case As the gay marriage issue returns to center stage in California, same-sex registered partners have a direct personal stake in the issue. A look at the growing body of data on these couples shows a group that is larger in California than in any other state, and -- perhaps not surprisingly -- that looks more similar to married heterosexual couples in terms of affluence, parenthood and other social measures. A recent state survey of California's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population primarily done to assess tobacco use also found that...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Canadian Press and Canada.com OTTAWA - Gays, lesbians and bisexuals reported higher rates of victimization by violence than heterosexuals in 2004 - including sexual assault, robbery and physical assault. The Statistics Canada study examined victimization rates, perceptions of discrimination, fear of crime and attitudes toward the justice system among gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The odds of being victimized by violence were nearly two times greater for gays and lesbians and 4.5 times greater for bisexuals than they were for heterosexuals. Similar studies have indicated some factors typical...
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Friday, February 01
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Source: Associated Press via MSNBC , Reuters , and AFP via Google GENEVA -- Using a condom is still the safest protection against AIDS, United Nations health agencies said Friday after Swiss researchers claimed patients on retroviral drugs do not transmit the virus. UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement that they "strongly recommend a comprehensive package of HIV prevention approaches, including correct and consistent use of condoms." People taking anti-retrovirals can have undetectable amounts of HIV virus in their blood "at certain stages of their treatment"...
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Saturday, January 19
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Source: New York Times and Newsweek SAN FRANCISCO -- In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy. The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic. FLESH-EATING BUG SPREADS AMONG GAYS, said one Australian newspaper, referring to a study about an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection affecting homosexual men in San Francisco and other American cities. EPIDEMIC FEARED--GAYS MAY SPREAD DEADLY STAPH INFECTION TO GENERAL POPULATION, shouted a press release from the Concerned Women for America, a conservative public-policy group....
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: Globe and Mail , USA Today Bisexuality is not a phase or a period of experimentation that inevitably leads toward same-sex partnerships, new research has found. Being bisexual is a distinct orientation, not a temporary stage, says the study by Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah. It is being published next week in the January issue of Developmental Psychology , a journal of the American Psychological Association. Diamond conducted face-to-face interviews around New York state in 1995, when the women (who identified themselves as...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Researchers' press release and UPI SAN DIEGO -- Studies of lesbian and gay couples reveal some key factors that may promote healthier relationships in straight couples, a U.S. psychologist says. “It all comes down to greater equality in the relationship,” says Robert-Jay Green, PhD, executive director of the Rockway Institute and a researcher in both family issues and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender relationships. In a series of studies that Green conducted with Michael Bettinger, PhD, and Ellis Zacks, PhD, lesbian couples were found to be emotionally closer than gay male couples...
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Thursday, January 03
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Source: Telegraph and Science Daily Women and gay men may be the worst drivers -- at least in some situations, a new study has shown. Research has revealed that both perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to heterosexual men. Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, who conducted the study, believe the findings mean driving in a strange environment would be more difficult for gay men and women than for straight male motorists. Both tend to rely on local landmarks to get around, and are also slower to take in spatial information. Differences in...
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Monday, December 10
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Source: ScienceDaily and Chicago Sun-Times A new study is providing insights into the genetics of homosexuality -- at least in fruit flies. Researchers have discovered a gene involved in homosexual behavior in the tiny flies. They also found a way to turn homosexuality on and off with drugs. Humans have a similar gene. But it's unclear what effect, if any, the gene has on homosexual behavior in people, said biologist David Featherstone of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Featherstone and colleagues described their findings in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The team led by Featherstone...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Poz.com The use of crystal methamphetamine and other party drugs, such as ecstasy, ketamine and GHB, has begun to decrease among gay and bisexual men in New York City, according to new study data presented at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta. David Bimbi, of the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) at Hunter College in New York City, and his colleagues collected data from 5,861 gay and bisexual men recruited between 2002 and 2006 at major gay community events in New York City. The average age of the men was 37 years old. Most were gay-identified...
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Wednesday, December 05
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Source: HealthDay via US News & World Report WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Most men newly infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) choose to have unprotected sex only with other HIV-infected partners, say U.S. researchers who analyzed data from six clinics in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, New Haven, San Diego and Providence, R.I. The study included 27 men with acute HIV infection. This refers to the one-month period immediately following HIV infection, when a person tends to have the highest levels of HIV circulating in their blood. This makes it much more likely...
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Monday, December 03
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Source: HealthDay.com (HealthDay News) -- Two new U.S. studies of gay and bisexual men who know they are infected with HIV show that more than one-third have recently had unprotected intercourse. In many cases, these men are engaging in unprotected sex with other HIV-infected men -- a practice called "serosorting," where partners with a similar, HIV-positive blood test status decide to forego condoms. However, "we also found that almost a third of the men -- 31.4 percent -- said that they had had unprotected anal intercourse with at least one partner of unknown serostatus, and almost...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: seaQwa's Qnews from Williams Institute study [pdf document] BALTIMORE -- Allowing gays and lesbians the right to marry in Maryland would provide a modest benefit to the state's bottom line, a new UCLA study says. The study by Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation at the UCLA School of Law concludes that legalizing same-sex marriage in the state would provide state coffers with an additional $3.2 million annually. The additional revenue would come from an increase in sales and lodging tax revenue from weddings and wedding-related tourism along with savings in state expenditures...
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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: New York Times The United Nations ’ AIDS -fighting agency plans to issue a report today acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s. The agency, Unaids, will lower the number of people it believes are infected worldwide, to 33.2 million from the 39.5 million it estimated late last year. The statistical changes reflect more accurate surveys, particularly in India and some populous African countries. Some epidemiologists have criticized for years the way estimates...
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Wednesday, November 14
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Source: Seattle Times and CTV Seattle -- Volunteers in a failed worldwide AIDS-vaccine study headed by Seattle researchers will be told whether they were given the experimental vaccine -- and may face a higher risk of getting HIV than those who got a placebo. Merck & Co. -- the developer of the vaccine -- and academic researchers from the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and elsewhere said they would "unblind" the study, meaning everyone would find out who got the real shot and who got a placebo injection. "All study volunteers will be encouraged...
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Wednesday, November 14
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Source: Washington Blade The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is mulling over when to release alarming new statistics showing that as many as 50 percent more people are being infected with HIV each year in the United States than originally reported by the government. According to AIDS advocacy groups familiar with the CDC, middle level officials at the disease prevention agency have quietly confided in colleagues in professional and scientific circles that the number of new HIV infections now appears to be as high as 58,000 to 63,000 cases in the most recent 12-month period. On...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel Hoping to call attention to the extent of HIV/AIDS among gay men, state health officials said Tuesday that an estimated 1 in 22 gay and bisexual men in Florida had the virus last year, an infection rate that dwarfs any other group. HIV has struck some areas of the gay community even harder, with rates as high as 1 in 11 among gay white men in Broward County, 1 in 13 gay black men in Palm Beach County and 1 in 12 gay Hispanic men in Miami-Dade County, officials said. By comparison, in the least affected group, 1 in 1,625 white women had the virus. AIDS activists...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Associated Press and Bloomberg Syphilis rates, spurred partly by unsafe sex among gay men, rose 14 percent in the U.S. last year, the sixth annual increase since prevalence of the disease hit an all-time low in 2000, health officials said. About two-thirds of syphilis cases were in homosexual men in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report today but women, especially blacks, were at increasing risk for syphilis for the second straight year, with an 11 percent increase in rates, the report said. About 9,800 cases of the most contagious forms or syphilis...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: Associated Press via Topix Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies. 'At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex , hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners' among teenagers , the study concluded. The report, which was based on a review of research into teenager...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Is sexual orientation something people are born with - like the colour of their skin and eyes - or a matter of choice? Canadian scientists have uncovered new evidence which shows genetics has a role to play in determining whether an individual is homosexual or heterosexual. The research was conducted by Dr. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, and colleagues at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto who studied the brains of healthy, right-handed, 18- to 35-year-old homosexual and heterosexual...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald LESBIANS and bisexual women are less healthy than their heterosexual counterparts, according to a new study. The study, by the WA Centre for Health Promotion Research, looked at identity, community connectedness, legal and illegal drug use, diet and nutrition, physical activity, cancer screening, mental health, harassment, safe sex practices and accessing health services. It found smoking rates in lesbians and bisexual women were almost double that of the broader female community. Alcohol use was also higher, with about 30 per cent in this group exceeding the national...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: The Advocate The Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA released a report Monday documenting what it called "a gay demographic explosion" in some of the country's reddest of regions. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), the analyses show that the number of same-sex couples in the United States has quadrupled since 1990 -- a number about 21 times higher than increase of the population as a whole. The biggest growth came in regions the study termed "Southern," "Midwest" and "Mountain...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: UK Gay News BATH, England. October 29, 2007 – A study of former high-school American football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men. In his study of homosexuality among sportsmen in the United States, openly gay sociologist Dr Eric Anderson found that 19 in a sample of 47 had taken part in acts intended to sexually arouse other men, ranging from kissing to mutual masturbation and oral sex. The 47 men, aged 18-23, were all American football players who previously played at the high school (secondary school) level but had failed to be picked...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: Chicago Sun Times The problem of domestic violence involving women is well-known and extensively studied, but the problem is just as bad with another less studied group: gay men. So says a study conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In fact, they found that 1 out of every 3 men in a same-sex relationship has been abused. That is similar to what studies of battered women have found. More than 32 percent of the men reported experiencing verbal, physical or sexual abuse in an intimate relationship. Just under 20 percent said they were physically or sexually...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune (includes material from National Geographic ) Salt Lake City -- Biologists at the University of Utah have engineered worms that are attracted to worms of the same sex, bolstering evidence that sexual orientation may be hard-wired in the brain. A worm's sex is determined by chromosomes found in its DNA. If a worm is male, for instance, all the cells in the body -- including those in the brain -- will be male. The scientists weren't able to change the gender of worms. But they were able to fool their nerve cells into acting like those of the opposite gender by manipulating...
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Friday, October 26
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Source: Canada.com Does a man's sexual orientation affect his risk for having an eating disorder? New research says it does. According to a study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, "gay and bisexual men may be at far higher risk for eating disorders than heterosexual men." The study results appear in the April issue of International Journal of Eating Disorders. Researchers found that "more than 15 per cent of gay or bisexual men had at some time suffered anorexia, bulimia or Binge Eating Disorder, or at least certain symptoms of those disorders...
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Wednesday, October 24
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Source: Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Gay men, but not lesbians, face discrimination at work, earning up to 23 percent less than married men in some jobs, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Whittemore School of Business and Economics spent two years analyzing labor and wage data from 91,000 heterosexual and homosexual couples collected by a 2004 U.S. census. They found that gay men working in management and blue-collar jobs make less money than straight men due to discrimination by their employers The study found that gay men who live together earn...
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