Are Gay Men Really Rich? - Freakonomics

Contents:

• 8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR
• ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?
• GAY MONEY
• THE 10 BIGGT GAY POPULATNS IN AMERI
• THE GAY-FRIENDLY CI HAVE LOTS TO OFFER LGBTQ BUYERS—INCLUDG AFFORDABLE HOM
• THE 10 GAYEST CI IN AMERI FOR 2020
• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR

He also vted Facebook and asked for his opn on why more CEOs aren't openly gay, Thiel said, "A lot of the bs are global reach, and when you have ctomers all over the world, be a qutn of ‘Will they hold that (beg gay) agast you? Lee BADGETT: One possibily is a gay person says, well, I know I’m gog to face some stigma and discrimatn the labor market, maybe my bt fense agast havg an e disadvantage is to get a lot of tn. That gay men are more affluent, probably bee they’re more highly ted, and bee they’re much ls likely to have kids, which means they have the money to live really nice neighborhoods.

ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?

DUBNER: Okay, so if the Cens don’t ask directly about sexual orientatn, how do we know what we’ve been tellg you about – that, for stance, gay upl earn about 20 percent more than straight upl? Badgett says that, while her data may not be so great eher, appears that if you took two observatnally equivalent men — same background, same tn, and so on – that the gay man would earn ls than the straight man, not more. In fact, earlier this year, Badgett and two -thors released a Williams Instute study which found that gays and lbians are more likely to live poverty than observatnally equivalent heterosexuals.

GAY MONEY

Now, you may be a b spic of such a claim ma by an stute dited to sexual-orientatn issu but, assumg ’s legimate, the next obv qutn would be: why aren’t gays earng more?

BLACK: I thk there is some good evince that gay men do take occupatns that are, you know, they look more female like, and of urse female occupatns tradnally pay a ltle b lower so that uld expla a part of .

Now, aga, keep md, an analysis like this reli on self-intified gay men who live wh a same-sex partner but, among that group, a gay man was about 16 tim more likely than a straight man to teach prchool or krgarten. And I spect that that differential treatment between the gay and the straight applints is likely to be seen other ways, if we uld actually study this further to the employment procs. So when we ask a private, veiled way, people are more likely to adm that they would be unfortable havg a gay manager, or that they thk ’s okay to discrimate agast gays and lbians.

THE 10 BIGGT GAY POPULATNS IN AMERI

BLACK: Well uld have negative effects on enomic out the sense that particular I thk givg greater accs to adoptn on the part of gay and lbian upl might duce them to suffer, if you will, the nsequenc of havg children, and of urse achieve the obv benefs to havg children as well.

So if you already thk that gay men are relatively affluent, and then you see a few really nice neighborhoods that happen to be gay neighborhoods – well, nfirms your view. Gabbana has rved himself a niche the dtry, and ignorg the stereotyp about fashn signers, he has been open about his sexualy, tablishg the much-need sense of normalcy to beg gay.

Ls than half of LGBTQ adults, 49%, were homeowners, pared wh almost two-thirds, 65%, of LGBTQ folks who do buy hom prrize livg fun, safe muni wh lots of other gay rints where they’re ls likely to be harassed. “They n have a level of fort [ the plac] bee other people have charted the waters, ” says fd the gayt towns Ameri, the ® team of data analysts looked at five-year U.

THE GAY-FRIENDLY CI HAVE LOTS TO OFFER LGBTQ BUYERS—INCLUDG AFFORDABLE HOM

The list was limed to towns wh at least 1, 700 hoeholds wh a marg of error unr many big ci like San Francis and New York have long been renowned for their thrivg gay culture, they’re jt so big that the number of same-sex upl ma up a smaller percentage of their total populatns.

The five-day ftival each September attracts big-name performers, cludg Lizzo, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga, as well as thoands of LGBTQ-iendly sert town, two hours east of Los Angel, happens to also be a gay oasis the other 359 days a year. Sheridan rints are still close enough to Denver’s gay bars and pri ftival, which has an timated attendance of more than a half-ln only downsi: There isn’t a ton of listgs the smaller town of Sheridan.

THE 10 GAYEST CI IN AMERI FOR 2020

While don’t have s own LGBTQ center or annual ftival, the quiet astal town neighbors Rehoboth Beach, DE, which has both—along wh dozens of gay bars and the whole area has bee a top East Coast LGBTQ vatn statn, many folks who want to stay year-round prefer the lmer vibe, natural scenery, and better als hunters n sre this three-bedroom townhome wh a pool and fns center the muny for $394, 900. Known for s lively mic, bar, and rtrant scene, the town is also typilly home to the Garn State’s annual gay pri about 90 mut om New York Cy, Asbury Park is hoppg durg the summer. Bloomgton, INMedian home list price: $379, 050Most folks are probably more likely to associate Indiana wh s nservative former ernor turned vice print, Mike Pence, than s thrivg gay culture.

The cy also received a perfect, 100-pot sre on the Human Rights Commissn’s Municipal Equaly Inx for five straight progrsive small town has a rich theater and mic muny, an annual pri ft, and LGBTQ+ muny center, and is home to the groundbreakg Ksey Instute for Rearch Sex, Genr, and lookg for a gay-iendly, Midwtern muny n sop up a remoled four-bedroom townhome for jt $117, 000. It turns out Brattleboro, about two hours northwt of Boston, is also a low-key gay mec the heart of ski ultraprogrsive cy is home to an LGBTQ center dited to the ral rints of northern New England, an annual LGBTQ film ftival, and equent men’s gathergs, workshops, and bt part may be the cy’s relatively expensive real tate.

The progrsive cy has such a large, active LGBTQ muny that hosts two major pri events: Atlanta Pri and Atlanta Black cy’s reputatn as the “Hollywood of the South” has attracted gay people om other nearby, more nservative towns and stat.

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

) But the statistil evince for discrimatn as a e of lower gay is weak at bt, and of urse falls down pletely the se of lbians, who, most studi agree, have higher than straight femal.

Utah and Oklahoma have recently upheld the ban on gay marriage; if the stat were to perm same sex marriag, then a total of 46% of Amerins would live a state that allowed for marriage between all nsentg adult upl. If they, too, were to perm gay marriage, the percentage of Amerins livg an equal-rights-for-all state would rise to 50% - a tippg pot that would force the matter to a feral bate.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The first to make our list, Washgton state has for a long time had a healthy relatnship wh s gay muny: the state and particular the cy of Seattle have a vibrant LGBT muny.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

The gay-iendly muny is pretty long-standg here, but Washgton was officially regnized as an equal-rights state when they passed laws allowg same sex upl to marry 2012. In Febary of this year, four same sex upl took their se to urt to challenge the ban on gay marriage Oh, while LGBT rights groups such as Equaly Oh are active the regn.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

The 362, 048 gay people livg Illois are offered the same rights as everyone else the state, thanks to the same sex marriage laws which were passed November 2013 -makg the sixteenth state to pass such a law the Uned Stat. In the ma cy of Chigo, Gay Pri is a major celebratn: as well as the nventnal bars and social events, Chigo’s gay district - Boys Town - also has a work of support servic for members of the LGBT muny, as well as bookshops, f, and even an anic vegetable store! After a seri of appeals, the bill was eventually passed to law, wh San Francis's Cy Hall alive wh lour this past Febary celebratg 10 years of gay marriage the state.