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* Married lesbians are 2-3 times more likely to divorce than straight couples.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | * Married lesbians are 2-3 times more likely to divorce than straight couples.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | ||
* 79% of homosexual men say over half of their sex partners are strangers.<ref name="ref90">http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Opportunity-Disparities-Affecting-Bisexual/dp/0195301536</ref> | * 79% of homosexual men say over half of their sex partners are strangers.<ref name="ref90">http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Opportunity-Disparities-Affecting-Bisexual/dp/0195301536</ref> | ||
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* Infection rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia are increasing among active homosexual men.<ref name="ref97">http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/the_gay_agenda_and_the_real_world.html</ref> | |||
* Gay men, 1% of the population, account for 83% of syphilis cases.<ref name="ref97"></ref> | |||
* Syphilis was almost eradicated, but made a comeback among homosexual men.<ref name="ref97"></ref> | |||
* Active homosexual men are 17 times more likely than straight people to have anal cancer.<ref name="ref97"></ref> | |||
* Gay men are 60x more likely to have HIV than straight men.<ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462414/</ref> | |||
* One in eight gay men in London has HIV.<ref>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/11/18/13-of-gay-and-bisexual-men-in-london-living-with-hiv/</ref> | |||
* Gay men, who are 1.65% of the US population, account for 63% of the country’s syphilis cases.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | |||
* In 2010, homosexuals were about 200 times more likely than everyone else to be diagnosed with HIV.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | |||
* Gay men are 15 times more likely to have Hepatitis B than everyone else.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | |||
* While comprising only 2% of the country, homosexuals account for over 67% of all new HIV diagnoses, the risk of becoming infected being ~100 times higher than the US average.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2012/hivincidencegraphics.html</ref> | |||
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* Two-thirds of men and women who were homosexual change their orientation to heterosexual five years later.<ref name="ref73"></ref> | * Two-thirds of men and women who were homosexual change their orientation to heterosexual five years later.<ref name="ref73"></ref> | ||
* Two thirds of self-identified lesbians later have heterosexual relationships.<ref name="ref73"></ref> | * Two thirds of self-identified lesbians later have heterosexual relationships.<ref name="ref73"></ref> | ||
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* Homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals are poorer than straight people.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | * Homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals are poorer than straight people.<ref name="ref61"></ref> | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||