/pol/ Always Claims Gays Are Not Treated Differently

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Well, that is bullshit:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/07/gay-men-trans-people-face-discrimination-housing-market/

The study recruited pairs of testers who were generally the same in terms of demographics, told them to both contact a realtor and ask to see an apartment, but one person in the pair said they were in a same-sex relationship and the other said they were in an opposite-sex relationship.

For the sexual orientation part of the Urban Institute study, researchers recruited 1800 pairs of testers in the Dallas–Fort Worth area and the Los Angeles area. The two people in each pair were the same in terms of gender, race, age, and ethnicity, and they independently contacted a property manager to look for an apartment. At some point in their initial conversation with the property manager, each person in the pair mentioned the name of their partner. One person used a female first name, and the other used a male first name. All testers presented themselves as in a relationship but without children.

Since the testers presented similar qualifications and came from similar demographics, researchers could see if the testers who appeared gay were treated differently from those who appeared straight.

Researchers found that the lesbian women and heterosexual women were equally likely to get an appointment with the property manager. Across some of the other measures, lesbian women were treated slightly worse, but the differences were not statistically significant.

Gay men, though, were treated worse than straight men to a greater degree. Property managers were less likely to schedule appointments with gay men in the study. If they did get an appointment, gay men on average heard about one property less than a straight man would hear about. The average yearly cost quoted to gay men for housing were $272 higher. The differences persisted across races and ethnicities, and it didn’t matter if the testers contacted property managers online, by phone, or in-person.