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an unequal distribution of partners: gays versus straights
Sexuality and inequality research
by Paula England and Eliza Brown | July 1, 2016
Do some gay men have lots of partners while others have very few? Is the inequality in partnerships among gay men greater than how unequally women partners are distributed among heterosexual men? What about straight women versus lesbians?
In our last post, focused on heterosexuals, we showed that women partners are more unequally distributed among men than male partners are among women, and that partners are more unequally distributed among singles than those who are in a marital or cohabiting union. Here, using methods similar to those in our previous post, we use Gini indices to compare queer men, straight men, lesbians, and direct women in how unequally their sexual partnerships are distributed. The technical details of what we did are explained at the terminate of this post.
How inequality differs by gender and sexual orientation
As the graph below shows, lesbians have the most unequal distribution of partnerships, followed by gay men, then straight men, with straight women having the most equal distribution.
To grasp why t
LGBTQ Communities of Color
*This section was created as a collaboration between GLAAD and Tre’vell Anderson
Often media coverage of the LGBTQ society describes it as a homogenous community of light, wealthy, cisgender men. But that perspective ignores the very real impact of race, ethnicity, and national origin (as well as income/class, education level, geographic location, etc.) on the lives of LGBTQ people of color. According to a 2021 Cornell University study, for example, LGBTQ people are more likely than non-LGBTQ people to be people of dye. And LGBTQ people of color face higher levels of discrimination than their white counterparts. Journalists should take an intersectional approach in their reporting, one that recognizes the multiplicity of experiences of LGBTQ people as informed by the specificity of their identities. Also note that just because a organization of LGBTQ people divide a race or ethnicity does not mean everyone in that group thinks or experiences life the same way.
Black LGBTQ communities
Due to systemic racism, white supremacy, and patriarchy, Black people already over-index negatively on almost every meaningful indicator of well-being, from poverty an
Understanding Poverty in the LGBTQ+ Collective
Poverty generally refers to a lack of basic necessities, resources and income, though its accurate definition is often widely debated and measured in a variety of ways. A common way to measure poverty is to watch at a family’s income and size, in order to determine whether it has enough income to support that family. This approach is employed by the Census Bureau, who each year identifies family size-specific income thresholds, below which, a family is considered to be living in poverty.
According to a 2019 Williams Institute analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, which is the best obtainable evidence on poverty in the Diverse community, LGBTQ+ adults in the Joined States are significantly more likely to be living in poverty than their straight and cisgender counterparts. Overall, more than one in five LGBTQ+ adults (22%) are living in poverty, compared to an estimated 16% of their straight and cisgender counterparts. Among Homosexual adults, poverty further differs across sexual orientation, gender, and race. Almost three in ten transsexual adults (29%), as well as almost three in ten cisgender bisexual
Growing LGBT ID Seen Across Major U.S. Racial, Ethnic Groups
Story Highlights
- LGBT identification up among Black, White and Hispanic adults
- More Hispanic adults than White, Black adults identify as LGBT
- Higher Hispanic LGBT proportion due to the population's relative youth
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The development in the U.S. LGBT population that Gallup reported earlier this year is reflected across the nation's largest U.S. racial and ethnic groups. Non-Hispanic Inky, Non-Hispanic White, and Hispanic adults in the U.S. are all more likely today to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual or something other than heterosexual than they were in 2012, when Gallup began measuring LGBT identification.
The growth has been greater among Hispanic adults than among White or Dark adults, with Hispanic LGBT identification surpassing 8% in 2020 and reaching double digits in 2021. By contrast, just over 6% of White and Jet adults identify as LGBT in the latest estimates.
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These results are derived from Gallup's latest update on LGBT identification, reported in February and based on combined data from more than 12,000 telephone interviews conducted in 2
Racial Differences Among LGBT Adults in the US
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Overview
This final announce in the series, LGBT Well-Being at the Intersection of Race, uses facts from the 2012-2017 Gallup Survey and the Generations/Transpop studies to assess whether LGBT people of dye (POC) differ from Alabaster LGBT people on several areas of health and socioeconomic well-being. We detect that more LGBT people of color report economic instability compared to Light LGBT people on many indicators. Additionally, disparities for POC LGBT adults persist in the health domain, except for measures of depression where more Pale LGBT adults report having depression compared with POC LGBT adults. Further, more women of color who identify as LGBT reported living in a low-income household, and experiencing unemployment and food insecurity compared to all other groups. We also found differences in outcomes among LGBT POC on some economic and health indicators. Overall, the series of papers demonstrate that the partnership between race and LGBT status is a complicated one that differs by outcome and racialized team. Regardless of these complexities, the data point to the need for social and po