{"id":12,"date":"2007-10-22T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/study-finds-gays-are-gasp-diverse\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:14:47","slug":"study-finds-gays-are-gasp-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/study-finds-gays-are-gasp-diverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds gays are (gasp!) diverse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mercury News (CA):<\/p>\n<p>Among Gays and Lesbians, Study Finds Ethnic and Economic Diversity<br \/>\nBy Mike Swift<\/p>\n<p>A new study shows gays and lesbians to be more ethnically and economically<br \/>\ndiverse than is commonly believed; Blacks and Latinos were the most<br \/>\ncomfortable with their gay identity.<\/p>\n<p>GAYS SURPRISINGLY DIVERSE, STUDY FINDS<\/p>\n<p>To judge from the images on network television and corporate advertising,<br \/>\nlesbians and gay men share the same demographic niche: affluent, educated,<br \/>\nurban &#8211; and usually white.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong, says a new national demographic study that<br \/>\nsuggests lesbians and gays are more likely to be older, \u201cresponsible\u201d<br \/>\nsuburbanites sharing a mortgage payment and listening to country music than<br \/>\nyoung turks partying in the Castro or Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to bust some stereotypes,\u201d said David Morse, president and chief<br \/>\nexecutive of New American Dimensions, a Los Angeles market research company<br \/>\nthat joined forces with San Francisco-based Asterix Group, a brand strategy<br \/>\nfirm, in an attempt to paint a more nuanced portrait of the nation\u2019s gays<br \/>\nand lesbians.<br \/>\nFull story at : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/valley\/ci_7240750\" target=\"\n_blank\">http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/valley\/ci_7240750<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mercury News (CA): Among Gays and Lesbians, Study Finds Ethnic and Economic Diversity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}