{"id":84139,"date":"2026-01-28T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84139"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:07:55","slug":"people-from-sexual-minorities-really-do-die-younger-new-data-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/28\/people-from-sexual-minorities-really-do-die-younger-new-data-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"People from sexual minorities really do die younger, new data suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21583\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LGBTCovid.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New data has revealed something the UK has never seen before: clear evidence that sexual minority people die earlier, and at higher rates, than their straight or heterosexual peers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/familyhealth\/people-from-sexual-minorities-really-do-die-younger-new-data-suggests\/ar-AA1V1dQL?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=67591c285fec47a285b1372a313d01ec&amp;ei=51\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>New data has revealed something the UK has never seen before: clear evidence that sexual minority people die earlier, and at higher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lgbtq.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84140,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84139\/revisions\/84140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}