There's a gay wage gap – and 's lked to discrimatn

Contents:

• GAY MEN OUTPERFORM STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS NEARLY EVERY AMIC MEASURE, STUDY FDS
• BISEXUAL WORKERS EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT, GAY COUNTERPARTS: STUDY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT

GAY MEN OUTPERFORM STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS NEARLY EVERY AMIC MEASURE, STUDY FDS

“I love gay people, ” activist and playwright Larry Kramer proclaimed at the outset of a 2004 speech New York Cy. ”A new study makg wav among LGBTQ-foced amics lends empiril crence to the inic Act Up -founr’s priful claims — not to the supposed sweepg superry of gay men, rather to the more narrow assertn that this group is remarkably cled to excel the paper, which was published the Amerin Soclogil Review on Feb. 20, to starkly opposg nclns about how growg up gay appears to affect the amic performance of mal vers soclogist Joel Mtleman (Courty Amy Lev)Joel Mtleman, a Universy of Notre Dame soclogist and the paper’s sole thor, found that on an array of amic measur, gay mal outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups.

BISEXUAL WORKERS EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT, GAY COUNTERPARTS: STUDY

Conversely, he nclud that lbians perform more poorly school overall and that Black gay women have a much lower llege graduatn rate than their whe unterparts.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT

“This article is focg a lens on what we do to all kids, ” Lisa Diamond, a psychology profsor at the Universy of Utah, said of the societal prsur that appear to impe lbians school even as the strsors possibly unnerve gay mal to pensatg for homophobia through amic strivg. From this, Mtleman med a trove of data cludg 15, 270 stunts’ high school and unrgraduate three surveys of Amerin adults nsistently dited that gay men are far more likely than straight men to have graduated om high school or llege, wh jt over half of gay men havg earned a llege gree, pared wh about 35 percent of straight men.

Some 6 percent of gay men have a Ph.