'gay men are thinner than straight people and lesbians are heavier'

Pink News reports the interesting news that:

'A new study by university researchers supports the stereotype that gay men are thinner than straight people and lesbians are heavier.

The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at a survey of more than 67,000 Massachusetts residents between the ages of 18 and 64.

According to msnbc.com, researchers found that while 21 per cent of straight men were classed as obese, only 14 per cent of gay men were.

Conversely, they found that 26 per cent of lesbians were obese, compared to 17 per cent of straight women.'

I am not sure about this as two of my gay male friends are definitely chunky and only one of my lesbian friends is particularly thin. But that is me falling into the BBC phone-in caller trap of 'disproving' research by anecdote...