Intersectionality between Income inequality and sexuality: Has the heterosexual production of space critically influenced increased income inequality amongst gay men?

Theoretical background

The Evidence

Gay men have 12% lower personal incomes and lesbians have 15% higher personal incomes than otherwise similar heterosexual men and women, respectively (Carpenter 2008)

sexual minorities earn significantly less than heterosexual men within different occupations. (Waite and Denier 2015)

Research aims

Queer theory is a critical approach that interrogates sexual normativities and orthodoxies

The heterosexualisation of space (Oswin 2008)