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UCLA’S WILLIAMS INSTITUTE
RELEASES NEW STUDY
SHOWING
THERE ARE MORE THAN 14,570
ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS WHO
ARE IN SAME-SEX COUPLES; 31% OF
API WOMEN AND 21% OF API MEN
RAISING CHILDREN WITHIN THESE
COUPLES
Press Release
For Immediate Release
October 21, 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
66,000 LGB API individuals and
14,570 APIs in same-sex couples
living in California.
Study co-author Christopher
Ramos notes that, “among all
states, California is home to
the largest number of lesbian,
gay, and bisexual Asians and
Pacific Islanders in same-sex
couples, nearly one-third of
whom reside in the state.”
The study also shows that
nearly 31% of API women and 21%
of API men in same-sex couples
in California are raising
children. Williams Institute
Senior Research Fellow Gary
Gates adds that, “LGB Asians and
Pacific Islanders raising
children experience economic
disadvantage compared to their
different-sex married
counterparts with lower
household incomes and home
ownership rates.” The
homeownership rate of API
individuals in same-sex couples
raising children is 65% compared
to 70% of those in heterosexual
marriages raising children.
KEY FINDINGS INCLUDE:
• There are approximately 66,000
lesbian, gay, and bisexual API
adults living in California and
the state is home to 14,570 API
men and women in same-sex
couples.
• At over one-third, California
is home to the largest
percentage of the nation’s APIs
in same-sex couples.
• Nearly a third (31%) of API
women and 21% of API men in
same-sex couples are raising
children.
APIs IN SAME-SEX HOUSEHOLDS ARE
RAISING CHILDREN WITH FEWER
ECONOMIC RESOURCES THAN THOSE IN
MARRIED HOUSEHOLDS IN CALIFORNIA
• The average household income
of APIs in same-sex couples with
children is $96,290, more than
10% less than the $109,091
average household income of API
parents in different-sex
marriages.
• While 65% of APIs in same-sex
couples with children own a
home, 70% of API married parents
own a home.
LGB APIs ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN
THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMY
• APIs in same-sex couples in
California are more likely to be
employed than APIs in
different-sex marriages: 78% of
APIs in same-sex couples and 67%
of APIS in different-sex married
couples are employed.
• Contrary to a popular
stereotype, the annual earnings
of men in same-sex couples are
more or less equal to married
men. On average, API males in
same-sex couples in California
earn $67,044 each year, almost
equal to the $67,618 average
earnings of API men in
different-sex marriages.
• API women in same-sex couples
in California earn an average of
$47,044 per year, near that of
API women in different-sex
marriages, whose earnings
average $44,593. API women in
same-sex couples earn, on
average, less than API males in
different-sex marriages as well
as API 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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