Archive for category: Fagonomics

Lesbian and gay economics

Lying about gay money, with the best of intentions (‘New York Times’ edition)    (2012.01.09)

The Times’s Tanzina Vega is the latest to perpetuate a disgraceful tradition of taking what marketers say about the “lucrative” gay community at face value

Keph Senett: Women earn 64% what men do, and that urgently needs to be addressed in lesbian soccer!    (2012.01.08)

Keph Senett takes the women-earn-64%-what-men-do statistic and misapplies it to the “LGBT” community

Those poor lesbian moms    (2011.11.16)

Denise Balkissoon on lesbian moms: “Considering… the fact that women on average earn lower salaries.” I ask: Lower than whom?

Zeke, rich widowed homosexualist    (2011.08.31)

Zeke, a rich widowed homosexualist featured in the Globe, pends like a drunken, widowed, homosexualist sailor

This Week in Fagonomics (IV)    (2011.07.20)

Another month, another round of refutations of factually unfounded claims that gays are rich

This Week in Fagonomics (III)    (2011.06.15)

Will Donovan Steyl and Karen Paperno please stick to the facts?

This Week in Fagonomics (II)    (2011.05.15)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t. (Superspecial “Sithifrican” edition!)

Doonanism    (2011.03.26)

Go get a job in a store, you big nancy, advises Simon Doonan