Are Gay Men Really Rich? - Freakonomics

Contents:

• 8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR
• ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?
• THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE NOT EVERYONE IS FABULOLY WEALTHY
• FREE RICH GAY DATG S
• GAY TAMPA
• RICH GAY, POOR GAY
• ONLE DATG GAY GUYS MATCH
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR

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ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?

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THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE NOT EVERYONE IS FABULOLY WEALTHY

I’m Danny Rosa and I’m wonrg why gay men are so affluent and succsful. So, I’m thkg, what is about gay men and the gay culture that mak them so wealthy?

What is about gay men that mak them so wealthy?

It is te that the gay neighborhoods that Danny mentns L. And if you watch even a ltle b of televisn the days, you’ll get the same ia … So, y, ’s pretty easy to get the imprsn that beg gay is a ticket to affluence. But today, on Freakonomics Rad, we ask this: how real is that rich gay stereotype?

FREE RICH GAY DATG S

Okay, so the qutn we’re tryg to answer today seems pretty simple: why are gay men affluent?

That, of urse, prum that gay men are more affluent, so we should probably start there. For gay male upl, meanwhile, median hoehold e is…$105, 600, or nearly 20 percent more.

So Danny Rosa seems to be right – gay men do seem to earn more. She says appears that gay men tend to have higher-than-average tn levels. 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.

GAY TAMPA

If, therefore, gay men get more tn, that would go a long way toward explag why they earn more. Are there big differenc between how a gay uple and a straight uple spend their money? Dan BLACK: The hierarchy sort of go heterosexual upl, lbian upl, followed by gay male upl.

And only 10 percent of gay male upl are raisg a child.

RICH GAY, POOR GAY

So a straight uple is more than four tim as likely as a gay male uple to be raisg a kid.

So a uple whout kids – gay or otherwise – has that money to spend some other way. Also, gay hoeholds are said to spend 50 percent more on pet re products – so if you’re a dog, and you want to be pampered, havg gay parents seems like a good ia.

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ONLE DATG GAY GUYS MATCH

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. BADGETT: The most important thg to know is that is actually pretty hard to get good data on lbian, gay and bisexual people. On today’s show we’re talkg about the stereotype of the high-e gay Amerin male, and how te that stereotype may be.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

And that’s not necsarily a reprentative sample of gay people for stance.

So one problem is that not everyone who’s lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr is gog to say so when a stranger wh a Cens form knocks on their door. 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? And obvly that’s a sub-sample of gay people as a whole.