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Bisexuality, Union Status, and Gender Composition of the Couple: Reexamining Marital Advantage in Health

Ning Hsieh, Hui Liu
Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1791–1825.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00813-2
Published: 19 September 2019
... of marriage among bisexuals, one of the most disadvantaged but understudied sexual minority groups, although a few have shown mixed results for gays and lesbians. Similarly, no research has examined how the gender composition of a couple may shape bisexuals’ health outcomes above and beyond the effects...
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Who Cares? Unpaid Caregiving by Sexual Identity, Gender, and Partnership Status Among U.S. Adults

Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, Madeline Smith-Johnson, Bridget K. Gorman
Demography (2024) 61 (1): 115–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11145841
Published: 01 February 2024
... intersect in shaping caregiving status. This study uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and aggregates a probability-based sample of adults living in 36 U.S. states between 2015 and 2021. We examine who provides care among adult heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women...
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A New Piece of the Puzzle: Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Physical Health Status

Bridget K. Gorman, Justin T. Denney, Hilary Dowdy, Rose Anne Medeiros
Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1357–1382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0406-1
Published: 01 July 2015
... sample of 10,128 sexual minority (gay, lesbian, and bisexual) and 405,145 heterosexual adults. Logistic regression models and corresponding predicted probabilities examined how poor self-rated health differed across sexual orientation–by-gender groups, before and after adjustment for established health...
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Fig. 2 Predicted probability of providing care by sexual identity and partnership status, stratified by gender. Predicted probabilities of caregiving status are adjusted for all sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and health measures listed in Table 2, as well as the state and year of the interview. Whiskers represent 95% confidence intervals. Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2015–2021. Pairwise comparison tests among men: Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered gay men (b = 0.03, p = .109) Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered bisexual men (b = 0.13, p = .001) Unpartnered gay versus unpartnered bisexual men (b = 0.09, p = .032) Partnered heterosexual versus partnered gay men (b = 0.12, p = .248) Partnered heterosexual versus partnered bisexual men (b = 0.01, p = .821) Partnered gay versus partnered bisexual men (b = 0.11, p = .288) Unpartnered heterosexual versus partnered heterosexual men (b = 0.01, p = .147) Unpartnered gay versus partnered gay men (b = 0.09, p = .371) Unpartnered bisexual versus partnered bisexual men (b = 0.11, p = .015) Pairwise comparison tests among women: Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered lesbian women (b = 0.01, p = .769) Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered bisexual women (b = 0.03, p = .113) Unpartnered lesbian versus unpartnered bisexual women (b = 0.03, p = .279) Partnered heterosexual versus partnered lesbian women (b = 0.02, p = .612) Partnered heterosexual versus partnered bisexual women (b = 0.02, p = .217) Partnered lesbian versus partnered bisexual women (b = 0.01, p = .854) Unpartnered heterosexual versus partnered heterosexual women (b = 0.04, p = .000) Unpartnered lesbian versus partnered lesbian women (b = 0.06, p = .132) Unpartnered bisexual versus partnered bisexual women (b = 0.03, p = .117)

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Published: 01 February 2024
of the interview. Whiskers represent 95% confidence intervals. Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2015–2021. Pairwise comparison tests among men: Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered gay men ( b = 0.03, p = .109) Unpartnered heterosexual versus unpartnered bisexual men ( b = 0.13 More
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Sexualities and Geographic Mobility Between Childhood and Adulthood in the United States

Andrew Levine
Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1541–1569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10085223
Published: 01 August 2022
... various sexualities (e.g., gay/lesbian and bisexual). Three findings emerge. First, mobility varies across sexualities. Individuals with gay/lesbian identity, same-sex behavior, and same-sex attraction are more geographically mobile than individuals with heterosexual identity, different-sex behavior...
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Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being

Lawrence Stacey, Rin Reczek, R Spiker
Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1403–1430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10081664
Published: 01 August 2022
... and ignore subjective measures, examined well-being outcomes in isolation, and lacked information on less well studied but possibly more disadvantaged SGM subgroups. In this study, we use Gallup's National Health and Well-Being Index, which permits identification of gay/lesbian, bisexual, queer, same-gender...
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Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population

Ariane Ophir, Diederik Boertien, Sergi Vidal
Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1581–1605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10968468
Published: 01 October 2023
...Ariane Ophir; Diederik Boertien; Sergi Vidal Abstract Narratives of demographic shifts overlook how societal changes shape the family trajectories of sexual minorities. Using sequence analysis, we describe how partnering and parenthood evolve over the life course of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB...
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Birth Cohort Trends in Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation

Hui Liu, Rin Reczek
Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1445–1472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9357508
Published: 01 August 2021
...Hui Liu; Rin Reczek Abstract Lesbian, gay, and bisexual-identified (LGB) people experience worse mental and physical health than their straight-identified counterparts. Given remarkable social and legal changes regarding LGB status in recent decades, we theorize that this profound health...
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The Direct Effects of Legal Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Evidence From Massachusetts

Christopher S. Carpenter
Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1787–1808.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00908-1
Published: 08 September 2020
... increased marriage among lesbians, bisexual women, and gay men compared with the associated change for heterosexuals. I find no significant effects on coupling. Marriage take-up effects are larger for lesbians than for bisexual women or gay men and are larger for households with children than for households...
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Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender With Self-rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease?

Alexa Solazzo, Bridget Gorman, Justin Denney
Demography (2020) 57 (2): 599–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00857-9
Published: 14 February 2020
... heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women, we examine data from a probability-based sample of adults living in 40 U.S. states for selected years between 2011–2015. We test two physical health outcomes—poor-to-fair self-rated health and cardiovascular disease—and present predicted probabilities...
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Fig. 1 Predicted probability of providing care by gender and sexual identity. Predicted probabilities of caregiving status are adjusted for all sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and health measures listed in Table 2, as well as the state and year of the interview. Whiskers represent 95% confidence intervals. Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2015–2021. Pairwise comparison tests among men: Heterosexual versus gay men (b = 0.07, p = .087) Heterosexual versus bisexual men (b = 0.09, p = .001) Gay versus bisexual men (b = 0.03, p = .544) Pairwise comparison tests among women: Heterosexual versus lesbian women (b = 0.00, p = .99) Heterosexual versus bisexual women (b = 0.01, p = .279) Lesbian versus bisexual women (b = 0.01, p = .595) Pairwise comparison tests by gender: Heterosexual men versus heterosexual women (b = 0.06, p = .000) Gay men versus lesbian women (b = 0.01, p = .868) Bisexual men versus bisexual women (b = 0.02, p = .432)

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Published: 01 February 2024
% confidence intervals. Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2015–2021. Pairwise comparison tests among men: Heterosexual versus gay men ( b = 0.07, p = .087) Heterosexual versus bisexual men ( b = 0.09, p = .001) Gay versus bisexual men ( b = 0.03, p = .544) Pairwise More
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Timing of a First Romantic Union Among Sexual Minority Young Adults

Sara Mernitz, Jaime Hsu, Amanda Pollitt
Demography (2024) 61 (3): 879–899.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11380562
Published: 01 June 2024
... as a cohabitation or marriage, among sexual minority young adults. We then distinguished between women and men and the timing of a different-sex versus a same-sex union. Compared with heterosexual young adults, lesbian and gay young adults entered a union at later ages (driven by men), whereas bisexual young adults...
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Structural Heteropatriarchy and Birth Outcomes in the United States

Bethany G. Everett, Aubrey Limburg, Patricia Homan, Morgan M. Philbin
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 89–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9606030
Published: 01 February 2022
...Bethany G. Everett; Aubrey Limburg; Patricia Homan; Morgan M. Philbin Abstract Emerging evidence links structural sexism and structural discrimination against lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations to poor health outcomes, but studies have yet to examine the combined effects of these mutually...
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Sexual Fluidity: Implications for Population Research

Joel Mittleman
Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1257–1282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10898916
Published: 01 August 2023
... sexual identities over five annual surveys, including 6% of cisgender men, 11% of cisgender women, and 35% of gender minorities. Fluidity was particularly pronounced among young adults and among those who had ever identified as bisexual or “something else.” Despite the frequency and patterning of sexual...
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Responses to Sexual and Gender Identity Measures in Population-Level Data by Birth Cohort: A Research Note

Christopher A. Julian, Wendy D. Manning, Krista K. Westrick-Payne
Demography (2024) 61 (1): 15–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11164985
Published: 01 February 2024
... of sexual- and gender-diverse adults are endorsing identities outside of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) labels. Current population-level surveys often include a category such as “something else” without providing further details, and doing so inadequately captures these diverse...
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Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey

Danya Lagos, D'Lane Compton
Demography (2021) 58 (2): 763–772.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8976151
Published: 01 April 2021
... estimates of the transgender population size in the United States. Furthermore, the implementation of these new questions mirrors the successful inclusion of other small populations represented in the GSS, such as lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, as well as Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus. Data...
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Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note

Yang Hu, Nicole Denier
Demography (2023) 60 (3): 659–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10769825
Published: 01 June 2023
...%) and particularly high among those with bisexual (56.8%) and other sexual identities (85.4%). Our evidence complicates efforts, such as an increasing range of surveys and the latest censuses in the United States and the UK, at establishing the prevalence of different sexual identities in the population...
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Predicted probability of poor-to-fair self-rated health among men. Baseline model adjusts for demographic controls (based on Model 1 of Table A2, online appendix). Adjusted model includes demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviors, mental health, and marriage equality controls (based on Model 5 of Table A2, online appendix). Columns represent the predicted probability of poor-to-fair self-rated health for each group. Letters above each column represent significant comparisons (p &lt; .05) within sexual orientation group or within marital status group. Bars represent 95% confidence intervals. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never married. k Gay/lesbian never married. l Bisexual never married.

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Published: 14 February 2020
intervals. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never More
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Predicted probability of poor-to-fair self-rated health among women. Baseline model adjusts for demographic controls (based on Model 1 of Table A3, online appendix). Adjusted model includes demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviors, mental health, and marriage equality controls (based on Model 5 of Table A3, online appendix). Columns represent the predicted probability of poor-to-fair self-rated health for each group. Letters above each column represent significant comparisons (p &lt; .05) within sexual orientation group or within marital status group. Bars represent 95% confidence intervals. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never married. k Gay/lesbian never married. l Bisexual never married.

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Published: 14 February 2020
intervals. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never More
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Predicted probability of cardiovascular disease among men. Baseline model adjusts for demographic controls (based on Model 1 of Table A4, online appendix). Adjusted model includes demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviors, mental health, and marriage equality controls (based on Model 5 of Table A4, online appendix). Columns represent the predicted probability of poor-to-fair self-rated health for each group. Letters above each column represent significant comparisons (p &lt; .05) within sexual orientation group or within marital status group. Bars represent 95% confidence intervals. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never married. k Gay/lesbian never married. l Bisexual never married.

Predicted probability of cardiovascular disease among men. Baseline model a...

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Published: 14 February 2020
. a Heterosexual married. b Gay/lesbian married. c Bisexual married. d Heterosexual unmarried couple. e Gay/lesbian unmarried couple. f Bisexual unmarried couple. g Heterosexual formerly married. h Gay/lesbian formerly married. i Bisexual formerly married. j Heterosexual never married. k Gay More