{"id":41106,"date":"2011-12-07T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41106"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T09:59:28","slug":"the-class-and-race-demographics-of-lgbt-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/07\/the-class-and-race-demographics-of-lgbt-families\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class and Race Demographics of LGBT Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonita M. sent in a report from the Movement Advancement Project<\/a> about the state of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families.<\/p>\n

LGBT families are more likely to be poor than non-LGBT families. \u00a0Nine percent of married cis-gender different-sex couples live in poverty, compared to 21% of gay male couples and 20% of lesbian couples:<\/p>\n

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LGBT couples may be more likely to be in poverty in part because of wage differentials between gays, lesbians, and their heterosexual counterparts. \u00a0Research shows<\/a> that gay and bisexual men earn significantly less <\/em>money than heterosexual men, whereas lesbians make somewhat more<\/em> money than straight women. \u00a0Gay men would be more likely than heterosexual men to be in poverty, then. \u00a0But what about women? Women in same-sex couples face the same wage disadvantage that all women face, but also are not married to the heterosexual men that are making so much money (making it so that heterosexual women can make less money than gay women, but still be less likely to live in poverty). Make sense? \u00a0I hope so.<\/p>\n

The second reason that LGBT couples with children are more likely than cis-gendered different-sex couples with children to live in poverty is that Black and Latino LGBT people are more likely than White LGBT people to be parents, and Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately poor to begin with:<\/p>\n

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Among same-sex couples, being a parent is also correlated with immigration status, which also correlates with class. \u00a0Non-citizens are more likely to be parents than citizens:<\/p>\n

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\nThe two million children in America being raised by LGBT parents, then, are more likely to suffer from class disadvantage. \u00a0The authors of the report go on to discuss the ways in which formal policy and informal discrimination contribute to this state of affairs.<\/p>\n

Via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sonita M. sent in a report from the Movement Advancement Project about the state of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families. LGBT families are more likely to be poor than non-LGBT families. \u00a0Nine percent of married cis-gender different-sex couples live in poverty, compared to 21% of gay male couples and 20% of lesbian couples: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,2088,2106,2125,778,272,285,1760,1754,1757,54],"class_list":["post-41106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-intersectionality","tag-marriagefamily","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41106"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58582,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions\/58582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}