The Cost of Being Homosexual.

This paper builds in two ways on earlier studies that have examined "the cost of being homosexual," both by using data from the 2000 Census and by employing multilevel analyses. In doing so, we have uncovered results that stand in sharp contrast to many of the previous findings about the relationships between sexual orientation and income, and the role that contextual variables play in influencing these relationships. Further, our findings emphasize that the cost of being a gay man differs greatly from that of being a lesbian, and that gender plays an important role in determining the manner in which contextual variables influence the relationship between sexual orientation and income. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]