Poverty gay

Comparisons of poverty for LGB adults and heterosexual adults in national surveys mostly showed higher rates of LGB poverty, although most of those differences are not statistically significant. The poverty rates for lesbian and gay adults in California are lower than for heterosexual people and bisexual people in the CHIS data.

New Patterns of Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community

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Understanding poverty in the UK and what it might mean for LGBT+ people

Download the full report. Contents Download Share. Overview Highlights Data Points Report. Full Report Version. Copy link Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. Among LGBT people, the most notable declines in poverty were seen among transgender people and cisgender bisexual women.

LGBT Poverty in the United States

This is also supported by earlier descriptive analysis of data from the Welfare at a Social Distance project currently in press that showed a higher proportion of LGB-identifying people claimed welfare benefits due to being made redundant after March and COVID lockdowns.