Rich gay couples

The gay dads getting rich from rent-a-wombs: Pioneers who launched a surrogate service to 'help' desperate couples are flouting the law, says Britain’s top fertility expert

Britain's first ‘gay dads’, Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow are not just charismatic advocates of same-sex marriage, but also of the often secretive world of surrogacy that allowed them to become parents.

Since they began building their family – five children by an assortment of egg donors and surrogate mothers, with triplet daughters planned soon – they have become the industry’s best famous ambassadors.

The men are blessed with funds, looks and a loving relationship. They have used all three to place themselves at the heart of Britain’s national debate about the legality and morality of this sensitive subject, the donation of eggs and the renting of a womb to create unused life

Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow have the secretive world of surrogacy to appreciate for the chance to become Britain's first 'gay parents'

Today, however, an undercover Mail on Sunday investigation reveals troubling questions about the

Why Straight Culture Needs the Rich Gay

He can boogie the merengue. He’s got the scoop on the new gallery. He’s polish, upright, handsome, worldly; cooks risotto and speaks French; knows his wines and his Warhol; splurges on brunch; runs marathons. He earns way too much money at his employment as a personal trainer or an interior artist. He’s a well-heeled, smart-coiffed, gym-toned urban professional, usually donning some kind of tuxedo. Let’s call him the Neil Patrick Harris Gay—or, more simply, the Rich Gay.

The trope of the Rich Gay is not a new one: there’s a direct line connecting the sexual deviants of the 19^th-century aristocracy to Pocahontas’ effete Ratcliffe to the Modern Family gays of today. Of course, gay people aren’t actually richer than straight people. In fact, LGBT people are actually more likely to require food assistance and live below the poverty line. According to some estimates, 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT. So where does the image of the Rich Gay come from? What constitutes the trope? Who’s promoting the stereotype—and, most importantly, wh

Debunking the “Rich Gay” Myth

Over the weekend, a friend tweeted me about an interesting website called Gay Money: The Truth About Lesbian and Gay Economics. It purports to summarize “all the research on lesbian and gay economics in one convenient place.” The site’s author, Joe Clark, is a journalist in Canada, and he found that the “overwhelming consensus of over 60 research papers on womxn loving womxn and gay incomes holds that gay men earn less than straight men, while lesbians receive more than straight females.”

I haven’t verified Clark’s sources yet, but he offers plenty of references for the statistics that he’s cited (almost all of the data comes from the U.S.). And this isn’t the fist time I’ve seen someone debunking the stereotype that gay people are disproportionally wealthier than their straight counterparts.

Here are some of the conclusions that I create most interesting.

Gay males work fewer hours than straight males. Lesbians work longer hours than unbent females.
Gay males often work in lower-wage, often female dominated jobs. The converse is true for lesbians who of
Hey everybody. A Freakonomics Radio listener named Danny Rosa recently got in feel with us. He’s 22, recently graduated from the University of Chicago. He works as a youth advocate at the Los Angeles Gay & Queer woman Center. Danny himself is gay, and he has a question for us:
Danny ROSA: Hey, Freakonomics. I’m Danny Rosa and I’m wondering why gay men are so affluent and successful. If you step down neighborhoods like West Hollywood in Los Angeles, the Castro in San Francisco, and Boystown in Chicago, they are all very well-kept, expensive, and highly sought after. So, I’m thinking, what is it about gay men and the gay customs that makes them so wealthy?
What is it about gay men that makes them so wealthy? It is true that the gay neighborhoods that Danny mentions in L.A. and San Francisco and Chicago – as well as similar areas in Recent York and Washington and elsewhere – are very nice neighborhoods. And if you watch even a little bit of television these days, you’ll acquire the same idea &#; So, yes, it’s cute easy to get the impression that being queer is a ticket to affluence.