Gary Glenn Spouts Same BS that Agema Does on Gay Life Expectancy/AIDS

In personal correspondence and through email from the American Family Association of Michigan throughout the years, Gary Glenn who runs the organization has touted a study in the International Journal of Epidemiology which he says shows that gays live drastically shorter lifespans than their heterosexual counterparts. Again, like Agema, these studies are from the 80's and early 90's which bear no resemblance to the current state of affairs of gays. (And if they did, it still has zero bearing on legal parity in a national of law.)

The doctor who authored the study (2001), Robert S. Hog, had this to say when he learned that Glenn and his ilk were using this as a weapon to advance legal disparity for gays and lesbians:

Over the past few months we have learnt of a number of reports regarding a paper we published in the International Journal of Epidemiology on the gay and bisexual life expectancy in Vancouver in the late 1980s and early 1990s.¹ From these reports it appears that our research is being used by select groups in US² and Finland³ to suggest that gay and bisexual men live an unhealthy lifestyle that is destructive to themselves and to others. These homophobic groups appear more interested in restricting the human rights of gay and bisexuals rather than promoting their health and well being.
The aim of our research was never to spread more homophobia, but to demonstrate to an international audience how the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men can be estimated from limited vital statistics data. In our paper, we demonstrated that in a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 21 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality continued, we estimated that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years would not reach their 65th birthday. Under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre were experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by men in Canada in the year 1871. In contrast, if we were to repeat this analysis today the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men would be greatly improved. Deaths from HIV infection have declined dramatically in this population since 1996. As we have previously reported there has been a threefold decrease in mortality in Vancouver as well as in other parts of British Columbia.
Source: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/6/1499.full