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UCLA’S WILLIAMS INSTITUTE
RELEASES NEW STUDY
SHOWING
THERE ARE MORE THAN 7,400 BLACK
MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE IN
SAME-SEX COUPLES; 55% OF BLACK
WOMEN AND 11% OF BLACK MEN ARE
RAISING CHILDREN WITHIN THESE
COUPLES
Press Release
For Immediate Release
October 14, 2008
Media Contacts:
Gary J. Gates, 310.825.1868 (O)
or 202.257.6400 (C),
gates@law.ucla.edu
Christopher Ramos, 310.206.0883
(O) or 213.880.1843 (C),
ramos@law.ucla.edu
Cathy Renna, 917-757-6123,
cathy@rennacommunications.com
LOS ANGELES - Today, the
Williams Institute at UCLA
School of Law released a new
research study providing
demographic and economic
information for the more than
55,000 LGB Black individuals and
7,400 Black men and women in
same-sex couples living in
California.
Study co-author Christopher
Ramos notes that, “these
analyses break stereotypes about
gay, lesbian, and bisexual
people, like the idea that they
are all wealthy. We find that
gay and bisexual black men in
California have household
incomes that are 44% lower than
their heterosexual
counterparts.”
The study also shows that
nearly 55% of Black women and
11% of Black men in same-sex
couples in California are
raising children. Williams
Institute Senior Research Fellow
Gary Gates adds that,
“African-American men and women
raising children in same-sex
couples experience economic
disadvantage compared to their
different-sex married
counterparts with lower
household incomes and home
ownership rates.” The
homeownership rate of Black
individuals in same-sex couples
raising children is 29% compared
to 63% of those in different-sex
marriages raising children.
KEY FINDINGS INCLUDE:
• There are approximately 55,000
lesbian, gay, and bisexual Black
adults living in California and
the state is home to 7,400 Black
men and women in same-sex
couples.
• At 9%, California is home to
the second-largest percentage of
the nation’s Black men and women
in same-sex couples.
• Nearly 55% of API women and
11% of API men in same-sex
couples are raising children.
• Black gay and bisexual men
have median household incomes
that are nearly 44% lower than
Black heterosexual men, $25,000
vs. $45,000 respectively.
BLACK INDIVIDUALS IN SAME-SEX
HOUSEHOLDS ARE RAISING CHILDREN
WITH FEWER ECONOMIC RESOURCES
THAN THOSE IN MARRIED HOUSEHOLDS
IN CALIFORNIA
• The median household income of
Black individuals in same-sex
couples with children is
$60,900, less than the $76,000
median household income of Black
parents in different-sex
marriages.
• While 29% of Black men and
women in same-sex couples with
children own a home, 63% of
Black different-sex married
parents own a home.
LGB BLACK PEOPLE ARE ACTIVELY
ENGAGED IN THE CALIFORNIA
ECONOMY
• Black people in same-sex
couples in California are more
likely to be employed than Black
people in different-sex
marriages: 77% of APIs in
same-sex couples and 66% of
Black men and women in
different-sex married couples
are employed.
• The annual earnings of men in
same-sex couples are more or
less equal to married men. On
average, Black males in same-sex
couples in California earn
$53,421 each year, near the
$52,252 average earnings of
Black men in different-sex
marriages.
• Black women in same-sex
couples in California earn an
average of $40,985 per year,
just less than that of Black
women in different-sex
marriages, whose earnings
average $41,772. Black women in
same-sex couples earn, on
average, less than Black men in
different-sex marriages as well
as Black males in same-sex
couples in California.
The full report is available
at
http://www.law.ucla.edu/WilliamsInstitute/home.html.
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