Archive for category: This Week in Fagonomics

Occasional recaps of falsehoods about gay income, as seen in the news

Best and worst fagonomics articles (2021)    (2021.09.07)

An amazingly original piece of work devised a theory of which jobs gay men and lesbians would choose. Running through a set of statistical surveys, what jobs did the authors identify as typical of gay men and lesbians? You’ll never guess!

A sudden rash of lesbian lying about gay men’s “disposable income”    (2014.08.27)

Julie Bindel and Rachel Swan should know better than to publish falsehoods about gay men’s incomes

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

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!)

This Week in Fagonomics (I)    (2011.03.02)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t.