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Gayborhoods: Economic Development
and the Concentration of Same-Sex
Couples in Neighborhoods Within Large
American Cities
Janice Fanning Madden and Matt Ruther
Abstract
This paper uses census tract data from the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Censuses and
the 2005-2009 American Community Survey to examine the locations of gay
male and lesbian partnerships in 38 large U.S. cities. Gay men and lesbians
are less segregated than African Americans and lesbians are less spatially
concentrated than gay men. There is little evidence to support the common
assertion that gays concentrate in more racially and ethnically diverse
neighborhoods. We find evidence supporting the popular notion that concen-
trations of gay men lead to more rapid development of central city
neighborhoods. Census tracts that start the decade with more gay men experi-
ence significantly greater growth in household incomes (and, therefore, pre-
sumably housing prices) and greater population growth over the next decade
than those census tracts with fewer gay men. Census tracts with more lesbians
at the start of the decade see no difference in population or income growth.
 
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