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The overall rate of poverty in the U.S.
was 12.5 percent in 2007, but lesbian cou
ples and the children of same-sex partners
are more likely to live in poverty than are
their heterosexual counterparts, according
to ^he first report ever to look at the sub
ject in depth.
The report’s lead coauthors, Randy Al-
belda and M.V. Lee Badgett, told members
of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen
dered congressional caucus during a March
20 briefing that there were “many reasons
to think that LGB people are at least as
likely-and perhaps more likely-to experi
ence poverty.”
Badgett said “the myth of gay affluence”
was what motivated her to get involved
in the field. Gay magazine surveys have
found that their readers are affluent, a
finding typical of all magazine subscribers.
Anti-gay groups have spun this into an as
sertion that all gays are rich and powerful
and therefore do not need legal protection
from discrimination.
Her earlier research debunked this
myth, “but that research aimed at the
middle of the income distribution.” She
said an out lesbian friend working at a
women’s homeless shelter had noted that
20-25 percent of her clients were gay or
bisexual.
“This is a part of the community we
don’t hear much about. They are invisible
in many ways.’’The main group of poor gay,
lesbian, bi and trans people studied had
been homeless children—either runaways
or youth kicked out by their families, she
said.
“We know that gay families have less
access to the institutional supports that
come with marriage, and often we see that
they don’t get as much family support as
their heterosexual siblings and colleagues
get...and same-sex couples are twice as
likely to be uninsured as people who are
married.”
Badgett lamented the fact that the 2000
U.S. Census did not ask questions about
sexual orientation. Her analysis was based
upon data from the census on same-sex
unmarried couples living together, the
2002 National Survey of Family Growth,
and the 2003/5 California Health Inter
view Survey.
"Wc know that goy
families have less access
to the institutional
supports that come with
marriage...and same-sex
couples are twice as
likely to be uninsured as
people who are married."
- M.V. LEE BADGETT
Albelda reminded the audience that
their analysis only covered couples: “In
dividuals are much more likely to be poor
than people in two adult households.”
There seemed to be a synergistic effect
between other risk factors for poverty and
being gay or lesbian.
“Not surprisingly, lesbian couples have,
statistically, significantly higher poverty
rates than married heterosexual couples,
and gay men have lower rates,” she said.
About 20 percent of same^sex couples
had children living in the household, a
lower figure than their heterosexual coun
terparts. “What was striking was the very
high level of poverty among the kids in gay
and lesbian couples,” Albelda said. Surpris-
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