Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Persons and Socenomic Stat

Contents:

• NEW PATTERNS OF POVERTY THE LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL COMMUNY
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• THE TTH ABOUT GAYS AND MONEY
• LEFT OUT? LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL POVERTY THE U.S.
• POVERTY LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, TWO-SPIR, AND OTHER SEXUAL AND GENR MORY (LGBTQ2S+) COMMUNI CANADA: IMPLITNS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS AND SOCENOMIC STAT
• THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE

NEW PATTERNS OF POVERTY THE LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL COMMUNY

Cisgenr gay men, ntrast, are ls likely to be livg poverty than straight and cisgenr adults, wh 12% of cisgenr gay men, pared wh 13% of cisgenr straight men, and 18% of cisgenr straight women, livg poverty.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

People who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) have higher rat of poverty pared to cisgenr (cis) heterosexual people, about 22% to 16% rpectively. This survey ed a module of SOGI qutns 35 stat om 2014 to 2017 and provis sights to the lived experienc of people who are cisgenr straight men and women, cisgenr gay men and lbian women, cisgenr bisexual men and women, and transgenr people.

THE TTH ABOUT GAYS AND MONEY

But wh a eper dive to SOGI subgroups, the variety of experienc be clear, cludg that overall, cis gay men tend to fare better fancially than members of other SOGI groups. As noted above, except for cis gay men, people who intify as part of an SOGI group other than cisgenr and straight are more likely to experience poverty.

While there is some variance wh SOGI groups that differs om typil poverty rat when age is not nsired, some factors rema te—cis gay men are closer to cis straight men than they are to other SOGI groups, cis women are siar regardls of whether they are lbian or straight, and transgenr people have the hight likelihood of livg poverty any age range. It is important to note that young people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr n be particularly vulnerable to poverty due to risks of fay rejectn and s nsequenc.

LEFT OUT? LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL POVERTY THE U.S.

An earlier Williams Instute study and other rearch showed that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people were also more vulnerable to beg poor, and this study updat and extends that earlier report.

The "myth of gay affluence" has predomated popular and scientific thought, rultg a lack of attentn to the tersectn of sexual orientatn and socenomic stat (SES). McGarry (2014) (PDF, 210KB) examed this tersectn and the queri a recent lerature review entled "Socenomic Stat as Context for Mory Strs and Health Dispari Among Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals, " published Psychology of Sexual Orientatn and Genr Diversy.

E., unrstandg the existg lerature on sexual orientatn as predomantly a reflectn of whe, middle class, gay male experienc), hypothizg about predictors that have tradnally gone unexamed (e. The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights.

POVERTY LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, TWO-SPIR, AND OTHER SEXUAL AND GENR MORY (LGBTQ2S+) COMMUNI CANADA: IMPLITNS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

“Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups. 'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement. C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln.

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

“The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said.

THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE

" So ’s no wonr that the nventnal wisdom is that gay people Ameri have tons of money and fewer enomic stggl than the rt of the the tth is signifintly different.

Every survey has qutns about race, about maral stat, about disabily, about ethnicy, about whether people have kids – all the thgs that matter people’s liv and fluence people’s vulnerabily to poverty – but they don’t ask whether you’re lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr most surveys.