Recommended Reading: Gays, lesbians more likely to be poor than straights

[ccharles000]

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10011

The Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief describes the article as follows:

LGBT people aren't necessarily "affluent" -- lesbian couples have a greater chance of living in poverty than married, straight couples, and the children of gay and lesbian parents are twice as likely to be poor as their peers in families with married, straight parents, a groundbreaking study from UCLA's Williams Institute has found.
Here's the opening paragraphs from the Washington Blade's Gays, lesbians more likely to be poor than straights: report; Study undermines 'myth' of gay affluence:


A new report from a think-tank on sexual orientation reveals how poverty is affecting gay people in the United States.
The report, released Friday by the Williams Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles, found that lesbian couples are more likely to be living in poverty than other couples.

The analysis found that 7 percent of lesbian couples are living below the poverty line, compared to 4 percent of gay male couples and 5 percent of opposite-sex couples.

The study also found that after "adjusting for a range of family characteristics that help explain poverty," same-sex couples are "significantly" more likely to be poor than opposite-sex married couples.

Also, the study found that children of gay couples are living in poverty at a rate that is twice as much as the children of straight married couples.

The Williams Institute compiled the information by looking at the U.S. Census data from 2000, the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth and the California Health Interview Surveys from 2003 and 2005...

The whole article is worth the read. The myth of gay and lesbian affluence is apparently just that -- a myth.

[readmoreoften]

1. No, we're actually all celebrity hair dressers.

And sexy childless lawyers with secret tattoos who look like the chicks on the L-word. I've read this so it must be true.

[WhollyHeretic]

2. That myth has been repeated by too many idiots on this site

Thanks for posting this

[Politicalboi]

3. And when we get older

If we are not married our Social Security doesn't go to our partners.

[ccharles000]

6. I hope it changes

[JI7]

4. you mean all gay men are not rich ?

i don't know where that came from. but it could be that gay men who ARE rich are more likely to be open just because they are more secure financially . so people are more aware of the rich gays while they don't always know that the non rich gays are gay.

[ccharles000]

5. kick

[daughter of liberty2]

7. K&R

:kick: