Are Gay Men Really Rich? - Freakonomics

Contents:

• GAY PERSONALS
• 8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR
• THE GAYS AND TENNIS PART 153 - TO THE HARDURTS AND U.S. OPEN
• ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?
• RICHIE RICH CGHT ON GAY PARTY TAPE
• IS ADAM RICH GAY?

GAY PERSONALS

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8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR

Among the openly-gay hyper-wealthy are Domeni Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the duo behd fashn power hoe Dolce & Gabbana.

Some of the bsmen and women have ed their fortun to advote for gay rights. 5% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr; statistilly, 19 of Ameri’s 492 billnair should intify as such. Billnair have exprsed their allegiance for their gay dghters and sons fancially: hedge fund billnaire Pl Sger has given more than $10 ln to support marriage equaly – his gay son, Andrew, tied the knot – while Progrsive surance’s Peter Lewis, recently ceased, donated $250, 000 to the Gay & Lbian Victory Fund 2008, as my lleague Clare O’Connor noted.

His son, Jonathan, is also gay. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban ss on the advisory board of Athlete Ally, a nonprof targetg homophobia sports. Beg wealthy do not necsarily make easier to publicly intify as gay.

THE GAYS AND TENNIS PART 153 - TO THE HARDURTS AND U.S. OPEN

“Do you know how many people the fancial world are openly gay?

By our reckong, Thiel is the only one who is openly gay. Of urse, some untri are more equal than others terms of gay rights, which might expla why natns wh the send- and third-hight number of billnair – Cha, 152, and Rsia, 111 – do not list a sgle LGBT billnaire. He works as a youth advote at the Los Angel Gay & Lbian Center.

Danny himself is gay, and he has a qutn for :.

ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?

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.

RICHIE RICH CGHT ON GAY PARTY TAPE

But today, on Freakonomics Rad, we ask this: how real is that rich gay stereotype?

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.

IS ADAM RICH GAY?

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. 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.

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